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Wednesday 6 June 2018

Poetry: "The Casualties" by John Pepper Clark


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THE CASUALTIES.
to Chinua Achebe.

The casualties are not only those who are dead.
They are well out of it.
The casualties are not only those who are wounded,
Though they await burial by installment.
The casualties are not only those who have lost
Persons or property, hard as it is
To grope for a touch that some
May not know is not there.
The casualties are