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Deathstyle Choice

 

 

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/home-secretary-faces-uproar-over-entry-spanish-neo-nazi-far-right-extremist-britain-1719878

Her Deathstyle Choice!

 

The red red rose of Lancashire, it’s red for love,

the poppy, flower of Palestine which gives me hope,

the fragile Armistice poppy, of hope, not hate,

trodden in the mud by Braverman’s Nat C. friends,

by the Nazi hate-mob...

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Armistice Now!

A letter dropped through my post box the other day, it was addressed to The Occupier,

so I forwarded it to Benjamin Netanyahu (C/o UK and USA).

 

We want...

What do we want?

Armistice!

We want it now,

In our thousands,

in our millions,

we are all

Palestinians.

Sir Kid starver

backs kid killing,

put up

shut up

no more.

We want...

what do we want?

...

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Wounded

Wounded.

Black bullet hole wound
blooms red November petals.
Blood and remembrance.

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Armistice (Gods Of War)

Armistice (Gods Of War)

The ink upon this document
dries twice as fast as blood
that seeps into this continent
and mixes with the mud.
The war to end all wars they say,
though many have their doubts
that a piece of paper, signed today,
will quell the zealots shouts.

So they dance beneath the spires
of Britannia’s grieving towns
and let the mourning of sad shires
taint her flimsy ta...

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