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Level Four minutes to do what you want What ya gonna do? Listen to a pop song Get half a ******** Smoke a cigarette Drive round the block Read two pages of a book Do fifty press-ups Recite a poem or two Watch most of Tom and Jerry Fly a fuelled up Meserschmitt 163 Queue for a news paper Chat up your friend’s wife Have a short nap Take a few photos on your phone Say Hi to a stranger Check your emails Get bitten by a venomous snake Write a letter to your mum Take the dog a walk Do some mediation to prepare Or do what in four short minutes There’s so much you can do When the nuclear attack warning sounds And you have just four minutes to live Before you’re horribly killed By the fecking bomb... from Side of the Hill – Varied Poems... Nick Armbrister