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If I can move to
other people, have

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said this about the people.

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Two relatives, the first
one called Cousin Sidney.

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Dull as a bat said my
mother of cousin Sidney,

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in 1940 that time he tried to
break his garden swing jumping

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on his size 12 shoes.

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At 15 the tallest
boy in the class

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Taller than loping Dan
Morgan, when Dan Morgan wore

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his father's top hat

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Taller than a bat, said my
father, when hero Sidney,

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lied about his age to
claim rough khaki silly ass

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and soon somewhere near
Dunkirk, some foreign corner

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was forever Sidney though
uncle would not believe it

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Missing not dead, please
God, please, he said

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and never bolted the front door

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Never string taken
from the letterbox

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Never the hall light off

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Lest his one son came home
through a night of sleep

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whistling we'll meet
again, Aunt crying,

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and raw in the onion
air of the garden

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The unswinging empty swing

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Her words on a stretched
leash, while uncle shouted,

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bloody Germans

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And in November 11th two
howls of silence even

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after three decades

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Till last year-- their last
year when uncle and aunt also

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went missing alas, so that now
strangers have go to their door

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and cut the string and no
one at all, the hall so dark

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waits up for Sideny, silly ass.

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