This is the body I love

And I can change it

You take food from it

Let it shiver in winter

Make it wait 9 hours in an ambulance

As it withers away

This is the body I love

But you have changed it

It waits in a

bomb shelter

and screams

don’t kill me

It gasps for breath

In a frozen sea

Please don’t

Drown me

This is the...

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Terry Hall

I heard the news

At 4.30 a.m. exactly

I knew it would hurt

And it did so badly

A voice that blew away the fluff of the 80’s

A sincere stare

And words that were rich and plenty

I heard the news

At 4.30 a.m. exactly

I knew it would hurt

And it did so badly

An honesty that left you feeling less alone

A life of pain

etched ...

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We live in fear

Of putting the electricity on

We live in fear

Of the next bill to come

We freeze in desperation

As the gas dies down

We live in fear

Of people in dinghy boats,

Though we know none of them

They make us fear…

The bus we can’t catch

The train we can’t ride in

The pub we can’t go into

Whilst they unpack

Fresh Harrods s...

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There are no words

Because words can lead to death

If I let my pen run freely

I will be the next

You will be next  

Until, the door is closed

And the audience has left

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There are no words

Because words can lead to death

If I let my pen run freely

I will be the next

You will be next  

Until, the door is closed

And audience has left

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After holding the country

In a straight jacket

Of lies, deceit  and

Despicable behavior

The Lunatic has left

               The asylum

After…

Trashing the country

Smashing up democracy

Popping corks when people died

The Lunatic has left

                The asylum

But the rats will enter again , from the side door

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On “Victory Day”  Knee deep in blood

The arms and limbs of the dead

Climb up you

In day and night terrors.

Murdered by you

Mothers

Fathers

Lovers

Sisters

brothers

children

&

Babies

All silenced by you

Your final solution…

Like the Jews in the ghetto.

All must go

But on your death bed

“Your god” whispers

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The cars outside my window

Rumble to and from places

Without a care in the world

The children scream out Mehmet’s name

To come out to play

And when he does

Their little faces light up  

In Mariupol there is just silence

A bird sarcastically chirps

A dog sniffs round

But there is nothing to eat

The rumble of tanks has gone

The screams have ...

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I wake up to coffee

My failing eye sight

Classical music  gently calming down

The beats of the coming day

My cat encircles me

Wanting food

And then with trepidation

I turn on the news

They are waking up to

An underground shelter

Darkness all around them

Hearing in the distance

The slow thunder of tanks

And the loss of thei...

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The sirens are ringing out

Did I wake up to 1939?

Bits of paper waved in the air

As a bomb rips through a house

“we’ll hit them in their bank accounts”

But no statement can save a child’s life

The sirens ringing out

Wailing across a Kyiv square

A mother in Donetsk a sister in Odesa

A cold chill running down her spine

“It’s hopeless”

...

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Inflation is going down

Though you know it’s rising sky high

He gets to the dispatch box

And says 2+2 are 5

“No, it’s 6” scream the backbenchers

“It’s 7” “No it’s 9”

The thin burning tissue paper

Of lies

Corruption is a badge of honour

The truth is a lie

Just sit back and watch

The country burning from the inside

The thick corrosive wound fes...

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                           For once I didn’t open my eyes

                           And flick on the screen

Scan the news, designed to make me scream.

Posts and pictures of people “seizing the day”

Each not so subtly saying

“Look at me look at me”

Instead…

                 I poured coffee

                 With my first cigarette in hand

And looked at something ...

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