"Lovers lie around in it Broken glass is found in it Grass I like that stuff"
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Other stanzas follow this pattern. Roger McGough wrote a version with the refrain "I like that stuff".
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Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist, and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament movement.
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