Yes, it's Swindon's first
Inter-school Youth Poetry Slam!
Toxamic Clown - Commonweal School
The Winners of SFL Youth Slam 2005.
Photo by Ben Cavanna

Curious George
And the land of the black gold
By Toxamic Clown

Two thousand and one, The Whitehouse,
Politicians are having a chat,
"This county could do with some oil,
Let's go bomb Iraq."
"A great idea Mr. President,
But we need someone watching our back."
"What kind of a stupid country,
`Would do a thing like that!?"
Luckily Tony, a loyal stooge, burst through the
open door,
"I say, George, please look at me,
I want to play connect four."

Now Tony needed to make it legal,
But nobody agreed,
Eventually they found someone who met their needs. "Yeah, sure, it's legal…
Can I have my money now?"
"Start the tanks George we're on our way",
Somehow.

So we've fought for about a year or three,
Nobody's quite sure why,
Something about Weapons of mass destruction,
Or was it sending people to die?
And we found Sadam,
Who gives a damn!
Even now we are still at war.
The important thing is George got to fight,
In time for the election of 2004.

So you staged a number of protests,
You begged him not to fight,
Even the good British soldiers, fought against it with all their might,
But Tony and his `ideals' still would not be swayed,
On the General Election May 5th,
YOU voted him to stay.