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What is the purpose of your visit young man?
	
        I heard that you have the best marmalade in the world

Well we do import oranges but you look a bit foreign to us

	I am a seasoned voyager look at the stickers on my case


That is what we are worried about just making sure you are not a friend of Islam

	Just a travelling tourist Sir and I am not a criminal communist either
	

The usual hassle ensued at the border post and the police enjoyed its authority

It gave them power and a reason to be with nothing better than a bit of control

Made Britain great again and ruling over waves of incomers called for respect


Open your bag we can sniff drugs and destruction because your skin is so dark

	It is called mixed complexion blame the Spanish because I am from Peru

	I can offer you some tales from my journeys to take home for the kids

Bribery won’t work and now trap your dirty snout while we consider your entry


You must be trafficking something and have come here to infest and destroy us

Don’t like your sort and you are too big for your camouflage Wellington boots

	But my papers are in order please look at the stamp in my passport

	I have been to the world back and beyond and now you give me grief


If you don’t keep your gob shut we must send you straight back to the jungle

Not before we blessed your pigmented pelt with a firm handout from true justice

	I may look a tad scruffy to you but people come in all shapes and sizes

	Small I may be and yet I can fill hearts with joy and kind exotic delight


He pleaded with the dignity of a stranger which was an alien concept to them
 
Diversity had died very long ago and the Empire had suffered a solar eclipse

The guard’s hearts had sclerosed from an onslaught of ignorance and regulation

Luckily Paddington had a duffel coat and hat to keep him warm while detained 


17th November 2019
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