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Jubilee

by Ian Whiteley

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Jubilee

 

A step across the great divide

From this side to the other side

A cautious step, a careful stride

Centuries long and twice as wide.

 

Carefully place your stumbling feet

There’s caterpillars in the street

ghost butterflies with ‘nowt to eat

a life to live and death to cheat

 

TV screens in shop windows

Relay the parties and the woes

Resentment in...

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Thursday 9th June 2022 2:24 pm

jubilee   platinum jubilee   homelessness   little england

Otherness

by Ian Whiteley

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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

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Saturday 8th August 2020 3:29 pm

bigots   lack of empathy   little england   migrants   no heart   racists

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