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=Your Attention Please=

PETER PORTER ( 1929 – 2010)

** //Y // **** //OUR // **** //Attention Please // ** The Polar DEW  has just warned that A nuclear rocket strike of      At least one thousand megatons Has been launched by the enemy Directly at our major cities. This announcement will take Two and a quarter minutes to make, You therefore have a further Eight and a quarter minutes To comply with the shelter Requirements published in the Civil Defence Code – section Atomic Attack. A specially shortened Mass Will be broadcast at the end Of this announcement – Protestant and Jewish services Will begin simultaneously – Select your wavelength immediately According to instructions In the Defence Code. Do not Take well-loved pets (including birds) Into your shelter – they will consume Fresh air. Leave the old and bed- ridden, you can do nothing for them. Remember to press the sealing Switch when everyone is in      The shelter. Set the radiation Aerial, turn on the geiger barometer. Turn off your Television now. Turn off your radio immediately The Services end. At the same time Secure explosion plugs in the ears Of each member of your family. Take Down your plasma flasks. Give your children The pills marked one and two In the C.D. green container, then put Them to bed. Do not break The inside airlock seals until The radiation All Clear shows (Watch for the cuckoo in your      Perspex panel), or your District Touring Doctor rings your bell. If before this, your air becomes Exhausted or if any of your family Is critically injured, administer The capsules marked 'Valley Forge' (Red pocket in No.1Survival Kit) For painless death. (Catholics      Will have been instructed by their priests       What to do in this eventuality.) This announcement is ending. Our President Has already given orders for Massive retaliation – it will be      Decisive. Some of us may die. Remember, statistically It is not likely to be you. All flags are flying fully dressed On Government buildings – the sun is shining. We are all in the hands of God, Whatever happens happens by His Will. Now go quickly to your shelters.