After Niemoller....

First they come for the Communists

Then they come for the Jews

Next they come for the Unionists

The Irish, the Paki's, the Druze

Then they come for the Pacifist

the Lesbian Left-wing scum

the Pinks and the Punks and the Poets

and an Actor for beating a drum.

All the Blacks all the Whores

all the Niggers all the Moors

all the Thieves all the Witches

only thing only hitch is

in killing the Witches the Dreadlocks

the Warlocks the Skins

all the Teds and the Flat-Tops

the Irons and the Hip-Hops,

only one thing that rankles

as the weapons dismantle

and the Flakjaks break all their toys -

In the new world ceated

from the old world cremated

Will a Nightingale sing in the dark?

Will a Robin cling winter's fire to her chest?

And the Curlews still whoop as they wheel in the west?

Will we skate on the Thames and have muffins with friends

round the fire up for tea ... jolly-dee!

hot chestnuts all roasty and jammy and toasty

with the one I love mosty...thats me.

Only one thing that irks me,

confounds disconcerts me - it's true,

But a knock at the door and a face lives no more

and that knock at the door could be you.

....The Plague?

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