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Benjamin Zephaniah

A sandy place, a recipe for a nation and a Christmas plea: three poems by Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah.
‘I am told I have no country now’ … Benjamin Zephaniah. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

We Refugees

I come from a musical place
Where they shoot me for my song
And my brother has been tortured
By my brother in my land.

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