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It’s Christmas in the Asylum (belated version)
This poem is based on a story which appeared over Christmas, and which was taken to be true!
AWOL = absent without leave
The Christmas gammon have gone spitting mad,
they think asylum seekers are going AWOL
for Christmas: yes here in the UK it’s that bad,
with nothing around here but strife and trouble,
that’s why those “foreigners” want to go home!
Gee Beebie News are ha...
Tuesday 9th January 2024 1:37 pm
Aegean Overspill .....2015
Aegean Overspill........
Written in September 2015 when the mass exodus of refugees from war zones began.
Seems apt to re-visit looking at current events on the shores of the English Channel.
Crescent starred Gendarmerie manhunt, confront
overblown cover blown shyster sharks
frenzy-feed in back alley Bodrum,
fleecing Damascus dads of ventured shekels,
a one-way lilo lott...
Friday 4th September 2020 11:35 am
Liberating the mind before the land
From formative years
To adulthood serfs-baited
Servants ill-treated
From their means
Of existence alienated,
It is with hatred
From- serfdom- of- every-kind
-the- newly -unshackled heads'
Formatted!
Though their much-lamented land
Has come back to their hand
Tardy,their mind proves not free,
That is why they engage
In a killing spree!
Worse still death to all, allies
Inclusive,t...
Tuesday 3rd May 2016 4:07 pm
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