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WHISTLE NIGHT
Stands transfixed
Like a piece of wood
By the side, a hood.

Night fall creep
Like a caterpillar
Night émigrés colonising alleys.

Sleeping like a shot-gun
A whistle lies tucked away
On fat chest pocket.

Night fall creep
Like a stab in the back
As sudden grappling starts.

Echoes like cicada music
Call transfixed figures not to chicken out,
To soldiers come to rescue.

Guard lies bleed
Like a broken sewage pipe
No person or ambulance in sight.

Stay off whistle night
The broken promise laid off me
Like all vehicles without spare parts.