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Red triangle for political agitators, protestors, social democrats,

Socialists, anarchists and suspect left-wingers;

Green triangle for undergraduate dissidents, campus campaigners;

Blue triangle for foreign immigrants, black market labourers;

Purple triangle for socialists, communists and leftists masquerading

As ‘Christians’ (Postit: the recent crop of Archbishops of Canterbury

Are particularly suspect –seditious loose canons);

Pink triangle for homosexuals, metrosexuals, molestors and

Suspected paedophiles (at least, those not in high office);

Violet triangle for suspect poets and polemicists;

Black triangle for the "work shy" (Arbitschessu), feckless,

Scroungers, spongers, grubs, parasites, benefit cheats, layabouts,

Daylight-shirkers, curtain-shutter, artists, poets, WRAGS, NEETS,

Alcoholics, vagrants and beggars, pacifists, conscription resisters,

Lesbians, prostitutes, some anarchists, drug addicts, the mentally

Ill (incl. pharmaceutical addicts and guineapigs), and all those

Who would irrationally trample green shoots;

Brown triangle for Roma (Gypsies), travellers, Micks, New Age

Pagans, Druids, longhairs, sandal-wearers, lotus-eaters;

Uninverted red triangle for spies, entryists, reds, pinkos, Trots

(both Trotskyites and Trotskyists, etc.…

Univerted violet triangle for unemployed poets and polemicists

[Memo: all Strictly For Internal Use Only].

We have groups of undesirables for every colour of the rainbow,

So in terms of persecution and dishing out stigmas we’re spoilt

For choice –it’s mindboggling, but exciting at the same time:

So many colours to choose from, so many wrappers to wind up,

It’s like rifling through a lucky dip or a tin of Quality Street:

So many different flavours to each discriminating sweet…

Red and yellow and pink and green,

Orange and purple and blue,

We can pin a rainbow,

Slap an ASBO,

Stick a stigma on you…