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The Colour Orange (Haikus 7.0)
(i) Teaching
Fuck sectarianism
Raised as a child taught to hate
Fuck that bigotry
(ii) Blasphemy
Hating Catholics
Righteous in the eyes of God
So say scriptures
(iii) Reason
Taught to play the flute
Age seven: Songs are hate filled
hate for no reason
(iv) UVF
Sectarian childhood
Celebrating terrorists
Dead hero worship
(v) Hymn
Red hand of Ulster
no surrender no retreat
hate monger's Hymn
(vi) KKK
Orange Men march on
It's the Scottish Klu Klux Klan
It's white against white
(vii) 1690
The Orange Order
Teaching kids: Hate Catholics
since sixteen ninety
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