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Call Them Home

S.E. Bourne
2 min readJul 21, 2022

Call them home, anyone you even vaguely care for

call them home, welcome them in, and give them water and grain

call them home and build ramparts together

fashion potager plots

chicken pens

bee boxes

Set pasture for one cow, one goat, one horse

put up lard and flour

put up sugar and salt

put up water

put up white rice

put up dried beans

put up batteries

put up candles

put up soap and medicines and toothpaste

put up what you can

call home who you have even the least affection for

build a small platoon as you are able

circle the wagons

call them home that you can

the lights are going to be shut off

they are teasing that info to us

they have been stress testing us

they have let us know that an experiment is underway

those that react in Canada, in Sri Lanka

the Dutch

oh thank the Dutch who otherwise seem so pliable

but Klaus has told us

a reset to come

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S.E. Bourne
S.E. Bourne

Written by S.E. Bourne

“If this is all I get, I will take it.” *S.E. Bourne

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