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On "Stephen Lawrence"
I asked: “what of December, Twenty-Twelve?”,
My mind peering through that literal crowd,
All those thoughts, all those words, in there, on the shelf,
Of the world wide web of Write Out Loud.
An article about Carol Ann Duffy (I make no claim to be a fan) caught my eye.
https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=26736
She was under fire from the Torygraph ...
Tuesday 20th December 2022 7:00 pm
You could have had kids by now
Teenagers,
chips off the old block,
leaving school,
marching out into the world.
Watching their dad getting by
getting on
maybe struggling
to making ends meet
like we all are.
Watching the news on the TV
reading about an inquiry
into the police
spying on an inquiry
into the police
letting young men get
away with murder
because of the...
Monday 10th March 2014 11:25 am
One Of Us - A Stephen Lawrence Tribute
Twenty years ago,
he is waiting for a bus,
'Cos twenty years ago
he is simply one of us.
But just twenty years ago,
he comes under attack,
Just 'cos twenty years ago,
this teenager is black.
Twenty years ago,
he runs for his life,
'Cos twenty years ago,
racists stick him with a knife.
Twenty years ago,
this firework is far too fleeting,
And so twenty ...
Monday 22nd April 2013 10:36 pm
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