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No Future

John D Robinson

Even at the time it
was happening it felt
unreal; surreal and
absurd;
I was 15 years old
and was standing in
front of a small
framed shitty photograph
of Elizabeth II, Queen
of England in a
small recruitment
office in the town
centre;
this was 1979,
just 2 years earlier I
had been screaming
along to
The Sex Pistols
‘God Save The Queen’
and now here I was
promising to defend
and kill and die for
her honour and
country and I had never
met her and for
some reason Her Majesty
couldn’t attend
to witness as I pledged
allegiance to the crown;
afterwards, the uniformed
lance corporal handed
me a £5.00 note and
told me that I was now
an enlisted member of
Her Majesty’s Armed
Forces; I took one
last look at the photograph
and walked away
wondering what the
fuck I had just done.

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