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How to survive a nuclear winter
Antony Owen
Beneath the welt of a nuclear moon,
we’ll meet in government shelters,
sing merry cockney songs in subways foggy with stench;
help will come in books of flames.
All the cars are gunmetal grey;
we harvest screen-wash for wounds.
At night, marauders make smog from bodies in acres of lye –
they wheel the meat to the ice rink.
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