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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They laughingly know it as: “Mowing the Lawn”,

that callously racist colonial project,

in the name of the land in which I was born,

British values, you call them? well I’ve pressed “reject”!

for too long, being murdered and beaten, Palestinians

now rise to proclaim: “No More of the Nakba”,

so, shame on your silence, their freedom’s my freedom,

it’s my fight ‘til I’m called to ...

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