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Poem: Mistrial/Innocent Man

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Simon Sweetman
Sep 26, 2019
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This teacher in high school told us all to write out the lyrics to our favourite song and bring a tape or CD into class to play the tune. We’d read the lyrics out and play the song to the class – talk about why we choose it – what it was about.

She played We Didn’t Start The Fire by Billy Joel. Made us study each verse. Then told us it was our turn, pick…

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