If I could be brave enough to remember the first time I went into my local library at the torrid age of 18.

If I could be brave enough to remember what the librarian said to me, as the jaws of a shark stamped those books with a thud.

At first, I held them scared to death, as they contained words and were unnecessarily heavy.

And then as if secretly, I finished a thing calle...

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I fear for the soil

The mother and

Child in tow

The gentle hello

To my foreign wife

I fear that when

She leaves the house

She might not come back

The bus stop is danger

The supermarket

The train

Walking down the streets

I called my own

But now they are “Theirs”

And we must be quiet and hide

Until my country comes back

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“I need to flee my country?”

Stay and die

“I wish to stay in Britain?”

Then lighten your skin

Change your religion  

Don’t talk in your mother tongue

Then you will be fine

If you decide not to accept:

Bricks through your window

Be shouted at

and knocked and spat at

in the streets

Because this is the rotten cradle of democracy

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Green

Green

Green

As far as the eye can see

Like,

Green

Green clouds

Hugging the earth

And me

Sea

Sea

Sea

Rugged dangerous

Enveloping me

The People

The People

The People

Safe and secure in their own skin

Unique in pleasure

Happiness overflowing into me  

Green Green

Sea Sea

The People The People

And me

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Dreaming of leaving

       This rock above my

             Head

Dreaming of leaving

The thought you are dead

Dreaming of leaving

Going back to when I

played here, running up

the path mama mama

kissing your sweet forehead

now motionless and

       cold

Dreaming of leaving

                                 Not wishing to go

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And so it goes

On

People protest

Against dead bodies

“They’re all terrorists

each and every one”

He says, they say

And so it goes on

The people are lost

Picking through rubble

Discovering their loved ones

Dead clothes

But the truth is being hidden

Sanitised by the news

The killing is not so awful

They plead

And so...

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Everyone’s  a  C*NT

I see the teenagers

Throwing things on the floor

A protest

Leads to the finger

Everyone’s a CU*T

The internet is down

They said they’d send someone round

Nobody came…

Everyone’s a *UNT

They’re blaring out music

On a crowded bus

Chatting to friends

Until ears start to bleed

Everyone’s a CUN*

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He belted his little heart out

Same time every day

It lasted for hours and hours

But still…

She  does not come.

I shouted out to the little bird

“Why not perch on another tree?”

“I was calling out to you…”

the little bird replied,

“To keep that smile on your face.”

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As poor as I am

I can still see the lies

Dripping down from posters

Larger than life

Each party vying for my eye line

Sides of the same dice

Hope, Fear

Progress,  Strength

Hate, Together

Each rolling towards me

Saying anything I like …

A tannoy blurts out

Some nonsensical nonsense

flags are waving in the air

and the dumb have becom...

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