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HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
You’ve told us lots of times “it’s do or die”
For you, this Brexit thing, so if the “do”
Bit doesn’t work, however hard you try,
Then don’t despair: there’s always Option Two.
I know, you’ll wriggle out of it, you’ll lie,
Prevaricate, and bluster, but if you
Seek one good deed to be remembered by
Then it’s that second choice you'll carry through.
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician
The Labour Party proposal to scrap benefits for those unable to work will be debated in Parliament next Tuesday, and threatens the most vulnerable in our society. ALAN MORRISON presents some responses in poetry
