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Rave From The Grave

Bill Greenwell

Published 04 December 2000

A mummified princess, apparently the daughter of Xerxes of Persia, has been discovered. According to the Sunday Telegraph, "her outer tissue and nails are beautifully preserved", but her teeth are mysteriously missing. Baroness Thatcher attacked Tony Blair

Like poor Mr Prescott, I am

absolutely gutted. But

I can still sink my perfect gums

into the pink heart

of the body politic. I've been under

sedation, under the weather, the wraps.

Now (may I just say)

that the Prime Minister is not a

patch on all my eye. Let me scratch

his particulars, his itch.

I am Margaret, I am Meldrew, I am Morse.

I am Milosevic. I will be

barking in my sarcophagus,

though it irks. He's

not the daughter of Xerxes.

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