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James Sutherland-Smith - After Lord Byron
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After Lord Byron
James Sutherland-Smith

Gentle foreign visitor you may wonder,
"Surely this place honours one of no mean stature.
Tell me whose memorial is this?"
But you'll have made an outrageous blunder.
It is the museum of Margaret Thatcher.
So unzip your lower garments and piss.

 

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