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Mowing the Lawn with Larkin
They laughingly know it as: “Mowing the Lawn”,
that callously racist colonial project,
in the name of the land in which I was born,
British values, you call them? well I’ve pressed “reject”!
for too long, being murdered and beaten, Palestinians
now rise to proclaim: “No More of the Nakba”,
so, shame on your silence, their freedom’s my freedom,
it’s my fight ‘til I’m called to ...
Tuesday 10th December 2024 7:43 pm
Souvenir Larkinesque de la Rive Gauche (et de l’Aile Gauche-seulement avec la permission des flics)
A Larkinesque Souvenir of the Left Bank
(and of the Left Wing-only by permission of the cops)
They fuck you up, your mummies and daddies,
They make you mean, and moody blue,
Their fault you’re dummy-spitting saddies,
That life’s turned shit, oh yes, it’s true.
Some fuckers, though, will never learn,
Fooled by posh twats with Latin quotes,
Whose nanny’s...
Thursday 22nd June 2023 1:21 pm
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