Raymond Farrell Poems

I fly no flag
I own no allegiance
To any country
So when a man
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It's not just
The 'bad ' Germans
In the early 1930s
That were the problem
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How many
Innocent people died
To put that diamond
On that finger
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On the other side
Of the back fence
In the home
I grew up in
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When I arrived at university
Here in Hangzhou, China
I had to take
Chinese language classes
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It didn't have to be this way
If (was there ever a more telling if?)
If people had made it
A simple priority
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Just thinking as I walked
Down the road
Across from the West gate
The insufferable traffic
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Said the dog to the cat
The reason I am on a leash
And you are not
Is because
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And for those
Who think it's so important
Go ahead
And build your house
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