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Sunday 7 February 2010

Where was the body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?
Who was the dead body?
Who was the father or daughter or brother
Or uncle or sister or mother or son
Of the dead and abandoned body?

Was the body dead when abandoned?
Was the body abandoned?
By whom had it been abandoned?
Was the dead body naked or dressed for a journey?
What made you declare the dead body dead?
Did you declare the dead body dead?
How well did you know the dead body?
How did you know the body was dead?
Did you wash the dead body
Did you close both its eyes
Did you bury the body
Did you leave it abandoned
Did you kiss the dead body

Harold Pinter

Alan Rickman read out this poem by his friend Harold Pinter in an incredibly powerful and moving moment at Wednesday’s Concert For Haiti
http://unisonactive.blogspot.com/2010/02/haitis-future-must-lie-in-its-own-hands.html

Frances and Andy De La Tour and Tom Wilkinson also read poems.
The photo is by Alejandro Gortazar whose exhibition 'Celebrating Cuba:Fifty Years of Revolution ' was supported by UNISON General Political Fund. Details can be found here http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news.asp?ItemID=1751