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The coward

The coward

Points his finger

At the world.

The bus driver

Has too many kids,

The eighteen-year-old

Left school

Three years ago,

My mother

Marries

Mad men,

That school

Is the kind

Of school

So-and-so’s

Children go to,

Girls

Are

Different

To boys,

My wife

Betrayed me,

My boss

Is a fuckhead

Clearly,

Sausage rolls

Are good

For the

Soul,

Yes yes yes

It’s a pity

You’re fat

It’s a pity

You

Talk

Like

A man

Who

Doesn’t give a crap

I do

I do

I give things

And people take them

And I’ll grumble

But never tell them.

Nadja Moore

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