Tony Fletcher, Wordsmith

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"I Don't Want to Take My Country Back..."

"I Don't Want to Take My Country Back..."

A guest post poem: "Ice Age" by Chip Hamer

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Ice Age

(when the continent of Europe was covered by

an enormous glacier, and there were no borders)

As if cutting off your nose to spite your face was successful

cosmetic surgery, ‘the people of Britain have spoken’.

Democracy. Inaction. The body politic broken.

Bullshit, bluster, and downright lies, it’s no surprise

when the disenfranchised stick two finger…

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