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Roundel for our youth

Hastings is safe - we heard it on TV.

While Birmingham and London are ablaze

We are all snug in Sussex, by the sea.

Hastings is safe.

Where feral youth in cities smash and rage

Ours slope along the front hoping to be

Ignored by tourists, or they stand and gaze

At apps and extras - which it seems are free

With Blackberries - 'til the electronic haze

Contents, and they can wander home for tea.

Hastings is safe.

Brian Hick August 2011

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