{"id":18,"date":"2015-09-03T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-29T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:35:46","slug":"dear-aylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatadventure.carterclan.me.uk\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Dear Aylan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Aylan,
We’re sorry you died.
We don’t like the picture.
But you know, it’s not our problem.<\/p>\n

Not our problem, those hordes of the nameless,
escaping from places unknown
and oppression undreamed of.<\/p>\n

Not our problem, the baby at the border,
screaming in a language
alien to us.<\/p>\n

Not our problem, your mother and brother,
drowned as you fled,
hope exstinguished.<\/p>\n

Not our problem, those immigrants,
we can’t let them in,
they’ll take our jobs,
and our money.<\/p>\n

Not our problem,
the unfaced on Keleti station,
they can deal with them.<\/p>\n

Not our problem, because
taking more people is not the answer,
but neither is it for anywhere else.<\/p>\n

Dear Aylan, I’m sorry but
you were not our problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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