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I wrote this as the massacres in Bosnia, the siege of Sarajevo played out on television screens across the so-called developed world. It sickened me at the time, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the brutality of that war sickens me now.
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Yugoslavia, do you remember her? She was the place with the holiday beach, in the east you could feast sun tan ice cream and peach, across from Italy just like us really, so why did they fight so bitterly?
Irregular, I can't concentrate for the noise of the TV spectacular, blood everywhere but I can't see Dracula, is it an ad for US COLA? I'm so brave now I'm a soldier, don't care if I don't get any older, grew up with Vietnam, now see, a lot can happen in a land of plenty
A lot can happen in a land of plenty
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Cease fire! another liar! Everybody got a grudge, nobody budge! Couldn't happen over here, you see, no anarchy in UK PLC, our present population is so healthy, just a simple poor and wealthy, religious division, national schism, you disagree you go to prison, that doesn't seem too free and friendly, a lot can happen in a land of plenty.
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Yugoslavia, do you remember her? She was the one with the golden hair, very friendly, nice over there, mediaeval, very beautiful, only capable of such evil. Welcome to Camp Concentration, welcome to our national fixation, life has gone, her eyes are empty, a lot can happen in a land of plenty, a lot can happen in a land of plenty, a lot can happen in a land of plenty...
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