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new poem: an indifferent old man on the passing of the monarch
an indifferent old man on the passing of the monarch an old woman is dead she died alone cold starving in poverty and in pain grieved by no one an unmarked grave the cats having eaten her face food banks energy price caps war induced economic crash the world continues to spin nothing to see here let’s move on the bbc reporter talks of rainbows the nation stops in the rain collectively cries out in pain… do we get the day off…again? I hug my teenage daughter in her sex pistols t-shirt and put the cd on again… god save the queen there’s no future and england’s dreaming we love our queen god saves an old woman is dead didn’t die alone cold starving in poverty or in pain grieved by her family a state funeral but enough of the reverential tones black ties and doffed caps flags at half mast the world continues to spin nothing to see here let’s move on the bbc reporter talks of rainbows the nation stops in the rain collectively cries out in pain… do we get the day off…again? I hug my teenage ...
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