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                                         JEANNINE CONNORS

                                         1917

                   

                                                Summer nineteen seventeen

                                                high tea at the Savoy

                                                petite fours and Earl Grey tea

                                                silver service and white linen

                                                the yellow Rolls waits.

 

                                                Summer nineteen seventeen

                                                through the Menin Gate

                                                to mud, blood, mustard gas,

                                                rats and rotting flesh.

                                                No-one wants to eat.