Limerick [Remembrance? Forget it!]

The military industry’s “Forever Wars”,

Mean our pockets are picked by their claws.

But our veterans’ street-sleeping bags,

Are replaced by more body bags,

That's great; 'cos in the morgue, they don’t snore!

Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,

Dé Luain, an deichiú lá de mhí na Samhna,

dhá mhíle agus cú...

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The Others, we are told to fear,

they point at strange and different folk,

whose foreign tongues upon our streets,

and foreign food and foreign dress 

might “dilute our Britishness”

as if it were an orange squash.

But evil is resident, not afar,

the enemy spread their fear and scares,

whilst warning us, look, foreign folk

have come to steal your homes and jobs,

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