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United

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 in the refugee camp
people wear t-shirts
that come as gifts
on a lorry
from England

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 some sit
eyes distant
others wait in line

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 a child looking
at the driver
asks

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 “How are Manchester United
doing?”

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 others kick cans
and play football
in the dust

Notes

Editors note :

reproduced by kind permission of Jim Bennett

LINKS
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Jim Bennett’s new poetry collection “The Man Who Tried to Hug Clouds”
pub April 2004 by Bluechrome read about it or order from;
http://www.bluechrome.co.uk/

POETRY KIT – Voted Poetry Super-Highway best resource 2001
http://www.poetrykit.org/
PK On-line Poetry Workshop
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9952/pklist.htm
JIM BENNETT – Publisher’s site
http://jimbennett.port5.com/
Some songs at;
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/3/jimbennettmusic.htm
An interview at;
http://www.poetrykit.org/iv00/bennett.htm
Poems
http://www.poetrykit.org/magazine/poems4.htm#bennett

Source: https://footballpoets.org/poems/united/