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Peter Raynard - Tommy and the Common Five-Eighters
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The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
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Tommy and the Common Five-Eighters
Peter Raynard
Some of us are washer-women wet-nurse
birth mothers of a nation of shopkeepers,
fitters and lifters. Smothered suffragettes
stuffed down the back of the Pankhursts’ sofa.
Some of us are trench-foot perfect-fit
coffin fodder taken in by the pointed finger
of men bred from a moustache to dig
a scar down France to bury ourselves in.
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