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Kingsmead Eyes Speak Led by Gideon Mendel

che

chakur

I am 10 years old and my birthday is in July. I live with my Mum in Shoreditch. I go to Kingsmead Primary school. I have six cousins and five aunts but no uncles. My grandparents were born in Saint Lucia. My granny always mixes my name with my cousins names sometimes. My Dad doesn’t live with me but I see him regularly. I like playing badminton with my Dad. I always play on my Wii playing Mario Kart. I play it for hours then I forget how late it is .

Everyone stopped dancing the moonwalk
Everyone fell silent, no one talked.

I was at a party
It was glittering dark
Then the light snapped on
Like a biting shark
Everyone stopped dancing the moonwalk
Everyone fell silent, no one talked
I said, ‘What’s wrong?’
They said, ‘Michael Jackson is gone!’
I said, ‘What do you mean? Dead?’
Everyone sighed and scratched their heads
This is my poem about a great artist
The strongest dancer to ever exist
Michael Jackson was legendary
When he danced the world felt free
I copied his moves from MTV
Taught myself steps, 1, 2, 3
Now you had better make room for me
Because my dancing’s gonna go down in history

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