We've had our pockets picked

Carol Ann Duffy's Olympic poem: 'Translating the British, 2012'

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We've had our pockets picked,
               the soft, white hands of bankers,
bold as brass, filching our gold, our silver;
we want it back.

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See the complete poem at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/10/carol-ann-duffy-olympics-london