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lilac_paws
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since 2006-07-20
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0 posted 2006-07-20 06:46 AM


La Vida Loca!

The Licence of Occupation
Is worth no more or less
An official piece of paper
That can make your life a mess

For eight months we dreamed
We’d have it in our hands
But the Spanish legal system
Had completely different plans

Without that little paper
We all came to the brink
Of insanity and madness
As we washed out of our sink

No electricity or water
We connected tubes ourselves
In order to survive
This cold inhuman hell

No-one seems to care
Of the injustice of it all
Buying a house is easy
Living is where you fall

The nightmares start to happen
Once we’re all awake
And fill up endless buckets
In the street outside our gate

We pray that someone somewhere
With compassion and some fight
Will look upon our family
And grant us what is right



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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
1 posted 2006-07-20 06:59 AM


well now I don't feel so bad about not getting financed on my new car


aziza
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since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!
2 posted 2006-07-20 02:57 PM


I have been there and can surely sympathsize.  Good poem.

aziza

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