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Friday Poetry Corner The Unknown Contractor

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    Friday Poetry Corner The Unknown Contractor

    To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State

    He was found by the New Labour Party to be
    One against whom there was no official complaint,
    And all the reports on his conduct agree
    That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, Alf was a saint,
    For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.

    Except for the War till the day he retired
    He worked in a Office as and electronic filing clerk and never got fired,

    But satisfied his Agent, HireandFire Inc.
    Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,

    And our Social Psychology workers found
    That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.

    The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
    And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.

    Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
    And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.

    Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
    He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment Plan
    And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,

    A DVD, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
    Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
    That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;

    When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.
    He was married and added five children to the population,

    Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
    And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.

    Was Alf free?

    Was Alf happy?


    The question is absurd:

    Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
    Last edited by Central-Scrutiniser; 30 June 2006, 13:20.
    If you have done no wrong then you have nothing to fear ...perhaps.

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    Wait until the war is over
    And we're both a little older
    The unknown soldier

    Breakfast where the news is read
    Television children fed
    Unborn living, living, dead
    Bullet strikes the helmet's head

    And it's all over
    For the unknown soldier
    It's all over
    For the unknown soldier
    Make a grave for the unknown soldier
    Nestled in your hollow shoulder
    The unknown soldier

    Breakfast where the news is read
    Television children fed
    Bullet strikes the helmet's head

    And, it's all over
    The war is over
    It's all over
    The war is over
    The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

    But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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