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01 Sep 2010

·Antonym

I used to think I was Switzerland, but now I know - I'm Belgium. You have marched forces across me laid waste my poppy fields So now they no longer grow tall. I did not declare war, take arms or to the skies - this is not mine - but when the bombs drop, poisoned I am acne-pockmarked, blunted.

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