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Peterloo
Here is my set recorded live today in memory of Peterloo at Manchester's Peterloo Soapbox (outside Manchester's Home) containing two new poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjruu7HGc0E&t=13s
Friday 16th August 2019 9:25 pm
Peterloo
In the end
It meant absolutely nothing
Once the killing
And the butchery started.
The collective voice of 80,000 people
Who had marched
For hours and hours
Meant absolutely nothing
When they were cut down
Like cattle by the score.
Everybody had arrived in a
Disciplined and organised contingent
Like a troop of soldiers
From the hills
And the outskirts
But ran ...
Saturday 17th August 2013 11:15 am
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