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The mountain is there to be climbed<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The weather its own<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Maybe violent maybe calm<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Funny like Cagney<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMa, Top of the World!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We are its guests<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The soon to be honoured dead should it decide,<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n To object to our trespass<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n To growl and bite back<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Conquerors in oxygen masks and with frost-bitten toes;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Are mere Yankee doodles in gangster shoes and clothes<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Funny like Cagney<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Heroes die as easily as unclean rats<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Svengalis, deities, autocrats<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The mountain does not forgive<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n It just is<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n White heat<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a9 Trevor Maynard from his collection <\/span>Keep On Keepin\u2019 On<\/i><\/span> ISBN 978-1480052499. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Trevor Maynard is also editor of the anthologies <\/span>The Poetic Bond<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n ISBN 978-1466498419 and <\/span>The Poetic Bond II<\/i><\/span> ISBN 978-1480209732<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n