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Cruella Than Anyone
A nasty old witch called Cruella
That spreader of Legionella,
Lived on an old barge
With some arsehole called George,
Now the UK’s got rampant Chlamydia.
Monday 23rd October 2023 10:54 am
Oh the Irony!
So, fellow poets, Rwanda’s safe…isn’t it?
Tell that to our friend, Innocent Bahati,
The Kigali school teacher, whose words are illicit,
And offensive to Rwanda’s high and mighty.
Come on, you poets, do you fancy a visit
To Rwanda to tell Bahati: it’s safe!
Well you can’t, because Bahati’s simply, disappeared,
Desaparecido, as Thatcher’s generals would say.
Worldwide, one h...
Friday 7th July 2023 11:45 am
Comment is Free
“Comment is free…
but facts are sacred”,
an ed. once said.
But I’m fact-free,
and my prejudice naked,
when things are said
with which I don’t agree.
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
4th July 2023
PEN International calls on the Rwandan authorities to urgently come clear and publicly account for the whereabouts of poet Innocent Bahati who has been missing since 7 February 2021.
https://www.pen...
Tuesday 4th July 2023 12:24 pm
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