The Berlin Holocaust Memorial is stark.

For the Tool though, those Stelae made a brilliant backdrop

to his ‘Twenty-Two election publicity lark;

The Shoa, he reduced to a pantomime prop,

Behind you, behind you! Look, Sir, it’s the …!

At Auschwitz yer man is on ‘Twenty-Five’s photo-shoot,

The strain in his face, act studiously honed

to show that he cares, oh, look at him, ...

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I remember a time

When my breath would burst forth from my lungs

Eager to greet the day

When the music was all that mattered

When I would dance until my legs could take no more

When people would seek me out

Eager to see me

To speak to me

To ask my advice

I remember a time when

My body

And my mind

And the world

Were synchronised

I got it

It got me

We ...

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