Michael Foot died yesterday: names of old
Names of my youth, so many departed
Tony Benn's still here; Thatcher's not yet cold
But Ted Heath's long gone; Wilson, too, is dead
Scargill's not too ill; the same can't be said
For Vic Feather or Jack Jones, union greats
Kinnock and Major are not aged yet
Compared to those seventies heavyweights
Nixon and Brezhnev decided our fates
God (or Lenin) help us; the war stayed cold
Like Berlin in December; Helmut Schmidt
And co can take credit. Student debates
Defending Mao - remember being embroiled?
Posters of Che, by history now hid
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