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Protest
Callum McLaughlin
They try to mask the chants with sirens trumping from white castles on distant hilltops, but
they are no match for the majesty of voices joined as one and comrades arm-in-arm. Picking
up fallen sisters and sympathetic brothers encountered on the way, we shall help them scrape
the grit from their shins; the skin stolen in protest from beneath their nails, and hand them
back the voices torn from their throats so that we may take up the cry as one: “Enough is
enough”. They’ll tell most it’s what they’re owed for venturing beyond their designated shores, and
so it’s up to us to bring them ruin; one song at a time.