John-Ward Leighton

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Another day, another death in Afghanistan:
four for this week.
There the news continues to be bleak.
Even the PM doesn’t think we can win.
Is a further effort just an extension of the sin?
I set my clock forward
a harbinger of spring
but it’s snowing outside
as winter has its last fling.
Mixed messages.