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"Shoot a Migrant"
The cartoon in question was sent to me by an "aquaintance".
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A cartoon captioned “Shoot a Migrant”,
Encouraged by the Daily Hate-mongers,
Fear and ignorance, both servant and tyrant,
A seaside “amusement” no longer,
The telescope now’s become a rifle,
Aimed at Johnny Foreigner,
An entertaining ...
Wednesday 4th January 2023 1:16 pm
Otherness
Otherness
We all know they’re riddled with Otherness
And they’re bringing it over here
I don’t care if they have the same body parts
It’s their Otherness that I fear
They’ll only have to look at you
And you’ll catch their Otherness too
They’ll be lazy, scrounging, Otherness spreading
Heathens – not like me and you
I bet they had lives of champaign and caviar
...Saturday 8th August 2020 3:29 pm
The better evil (revised)
Intimidated by political tugs
Prone to insert in one's mouth
The nose of a loaded gun
Or suspend a plastic bottle full of water
On males' reproductive organ,
Devoid of freedom of expression
Also denied to his right and
Deplorable condition drawing attention
Shunning his God chosen land,
What is more a bright and warm country
Under the sun ,a journalist dreaming began
Fighting al...
Monday 18th April 2016 2:27 pm
Lampedusa
This is where they come from:
villages eaten up by sand
river beds run dry
lands of red earth stained with blood
where there are mobs, bombs, bullets,
crops that fail.
This is who they are:
the young, the desperate, the brave,
fathers with daughters, motherless sons,
whose sin was to be born poor
worship the wrong body
bow before the wrong...
Monday 7th October 2013 8:56 am
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