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'Whose Dem Boots?' by Valerie Bloom (poem only)
Valerie Bloom performs her poem 'Whose Dem Boots?' with a group of children and uses Jamaican patois to create a distinctive rhythm and rhyme. The children take part in the performance by providing the sound of marching boots and calling out a repeated line in the poem.
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