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Ultima Ratio Regum
...Well the foolish boy was just someone I saw [during the Spanish Civil War] lying between the lines, just a corpse really, who couldn't be picked up because if you'd gone out and tried to take his body away, the stretcher...

The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles
She looked over his shoulder
For vines and olive trees,
Marble well-governed cities
And ships upon untamed seas,
But there on the shining metal
His hands had...

Di Great Insohreckshan
Di Great Insohreckshan
it woz in april nineteen eighty wan
doun inna di ghetto af Brixtan
dat di babylan dem cause such a frickshan
dat it bring about a great insohreckshan
an it spread all...

Sonny's Lettah
(Anti-Sus Poem) [Sus, short for ‘suspicion’: the Vagrancy Act, a revived piece of nineteenth-century legislation that led to disproportionate arrests of black youths. Repealed 2000.]
Brixtan Prison
Jebb...

Early Days Thinking Is Only So Much
Early Days Thinking Is Only So Much
I didn't think I shouldn't be hungry
I didn't think of government
I didn't blame my father's husbandry
everything was just as it was
I didn't think a...

In-a Brixtan Markit
In-a Brixtan Markit
I walk in-a Brixtan markit,
believin I a respectable man,
you know. An wha happn?
Policeman come straight up
an search mi bag!
Man - straight to mi.
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