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There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
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Adrian Mitchell
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2008
Died: December 20
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Adrian George Mitchell
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You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.
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I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
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