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Secret Sixties

 

Heavy bourgeois stone

Composed of music, Pop Art

Cult of youth, sexual reform

Love rhetoric

 

Hides darker truth of

Racist chants, stiff-armed salutes

Gas mimed through hissing teeth

Bananas hurled from terraces

At startled, spittle-slicked forwards

 

Boys raped in children’s homes

Voiceless class

Prey for the Great and Good

Gagged tight for decades

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Secret Sixties

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