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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

THE WINDRUSH GENERATION (weekly poem)

THE WINDRUSH GENERATION
 
The Westminster Abbey service on 22/6/18 to celebrate the
70th Anniversary of the Windrush Generation was entirely
unconnected with the government's recent Windrush Scandal.
 
The Windrush Generation came,
To gentle Albion;
Then came ashore and were abused,
And then were sat upon.
 
The Windrush Generation came,
And in this Babylon;
Had rooms at B&B’s refused, (1)
And then were spat upon.
 
The Windrush Generation came,
And settled hereupon;
In rubbish jobs and were misused,
And then were rat upon.
 
The Windrush Generation came,
And the Home Office con;
Meant all of them were then accused,
And then were shat upon.
 
(1) “No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs”.
 
© Richard Layton

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