“ENGLISHNESS” 3 October 1997
Nothing works,
quite the way it should
everything’s got a fault
or going through a phase
Stifled we walk
a fear to breed
a bachelor nation
with no children to feed
lost all sense of me
shyness is a disease
and traditional reserve
is the English legacy
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