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Jubilee

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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jubilee   platinum jubilee   homelessness   little england

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