I know you already know it,
But I still found it
There’s been a bombing -
and only quiet songs will play.
There’s
The nations' flag decorates our porches.
In the occupied territories
‘They were saved by a miracle’
and ‘their fate killed them’,
And
Democracy - but only to an extent.
It is intolerable, in
The fuel for the nations' existence
is your blood and mine.
The Holy War declared on an entire culture
is now
This country is terrified that every sentence
will find its
You can stand on the sidelines
and say it won't
Don’t fall into the melting pot,
its fires have been fed
Try and get raped
So the definition will be clear,
And men
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