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Oil
Last night I was walking home from work across the bridge, when something huge exploded underneath. I was blinded, deafened, several seconds, The concrete fell away beneath my feet, I'm on my hands and knees. A fireball rose around A double decker bus fell off the side. I made it to the bank, crawled past bodies on the tarmac and then I waited like a coward for the sirens to arrive. This kid came out of nowhere, in a wooden dinghy. She can't have been much older than 13 - but she was strong: she climbed up on the sinking wreckage, started pulling people free, one by one she dragged and carried them to safety... Then she was gone. When I got home the news was on, they didn't mention her. In the chaos maybe no-one even knows. London Bridge has fallen down, world still turns around: Down here there's nothing and the river flows. (oil on the river where the bridge fell down)
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