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Fangs

It never went away I was only a kid I

Remember years of tooth-ache after it

Mutated the winters were the worst and when the

NHS went there was panic, riots

Bodies in the streets,

Dad went for food but

Never came back like

Half-naked animals we were,

Screams hung in the smoke, bells tolling

Weeping politicians and

Hoarders got strung up on the news, mobs burned the

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