northampton poetry
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Take a walk through my town Down the dark and dirty paths We got no money for street lights There are no wages for street cleaners Peer from the lofty lift tower heights Drink in the run down derelict sights Hear the dereliction of council duty Drunk on their neoliberal counsel booty We have been
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Creed of Capitalism Is the greed of capitalism Bringing about the fall of capitalism There is no hope of reforming capitalism We can only settle for abolishing capitalism Solely because of the crimes of capitalism Forget about the lies of capitalism Focus on the destruction of capitalism Socialism the only cure for capitalism
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Stuck in the fast lane And going in reverse Try put the breaks on It just makes things worse On the outside looking in At the end of my journey When will it begin I thought I saw an angel Yet I’m living in sin Curtains begin to close We take our final bow We
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I dreamt, I wept I never slept the shame, the pain its one the same The truth, the lies The long goodbyes The pyre, my fire Dangerous desire
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That emptiness you feel eating away at your soul Is the suffering that the world feels The pain and wounds inflicted on one effects us all We’re all connected we’re all one under the Sun You know something is wrong but you don’t know what You can feel it right now eating away at your
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You’re not a bird said the eagle to the crow You can’t fly as high as me look how high I can go! The crow flew after him try as he might but it was no good the eagle flew out of sight so off the crow went on his merry way What a terrible
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Simmonds thinks he’s Caesar he reminds me of Caligula Fiddle as Northampton burns! He’s a school builder not a crime fighter Simmonds school he played us for fools Blood stained legacy long after he’s history the truth will be a mystery Corruption in Northampton is a state of normality Police force on all fours you
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Machine men walk in line goosestepping through history on borrowed time obey obey obey you’ll be ok Asking questions begs insurrection! Respect authority media lobotomy Machine men walk in line goosestepping through history on borrowed time
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We talk of the migrant crisis not a humanitarian crisis. not a war crisis caused by dropped bombs on villages We talk of a migrant crisis, not a desperation crisis as starved suffering people are forced to wonder the earth In biblical times we called it an exodus this is an execution Listen to the
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Darkness Abandoning, absorbing, afflicting! Darkness Criticising, confusing, condemning! Darkness Stalking, smothering, swarming! Darkness Damaging, destroying, defeating!
Solidarity Steve 