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Ghost Planes

from Depth of Field by Kaprekar's Constant

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Ghost Planes

A wretch they nicknamed ‘Diver’.
A slingshot England-bound.
Her shadow stains the waning moon.
Her ‘rocket’ shakes the ground.

Dogfight over the channel.
Outruns Merlin’s straight-line speed.
Two fingers flick the AKAK.
Seems the drone just may succeed.

The ghost planes scorch the evening sky
Eighty days one summer.
Tails of fire never tire.
Vengeance is her only crew.

Across the rooftops ghost planes fly
Eighty days one summer.
If your last defence is pure revenge,
This grave’s for two.

Monstrous silver jumbos
Keeping goal for London Town.
From Redhill through to Chatham
(They) train their wires across the Downs.

A ‘Wellsian’ dream awakens.
A robot war is born.
Blue Skies and Tailwinds,
And God help one and all.

The ghost planes scorch the evening sky
Eighty days one summer.
Tails of fire never tire.
Vengeance is her only crew.

Across the rooftops ghost planes fly
Eighty days one summer.
If your last defence is pure revenge,
This grave’s for two.

Silently our Diver
Falls to earth not far away.
The boys astride the rooftop
Fixing tiles at break of day.

The stoic and the fearless
And the terrified join hands.
The wicked mankind does is shared
Across opposing lands.

Eighty days one summer,
1944.
The fag end of a fight to bring
The curtain down on war.

The ghost planes scorch the evening sky
Eighty days one summer.
Tails of fire, no human flier,
Vengeance is her only crew.

Across the rooftops ghost planes fly
Eighty days one summer.
If sense descends to pure revenge…

The ghost planes scorch the evening sky
Eighty days one summer.
Tails of fire, no human flier,
Vengeance is her only crew.

Across the rooftops ghost planes fly
Eighty days one summer.
If sense descends to pure revenge,
This grave’s for two.

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from Depth of Field, released October 20, 2019

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Talking Elephant specialise in classic rock and folk music with reissues and new CD album releases. Our Bandcamp site deals with our special artists and feature releases from Kaprekar's Constant and Bold Reynold, the fusion with David Carroll and his Friends from Fairport and Gryphon. Bold Reynold will be available soon here on digital and CD releases. ... more

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