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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Small Change

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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I’m better off, by 26 pounds and 46 pee,

Says the telegraph and the bee bee see.

Though I’ll never see it 

Or notice when they flee,

Back to Jeremy Clarksions , 

Country homes by the sea.

He can work, if he looks well 

She can too!

Though they haven’t the will

or the way,

To conditions undo.

There aren’t jobs for you, 

But if you can’t work you’ll starve.

As you don’t look disabled 

And your pension’s a farce .

In a red box, never kind to the poor, 

Some pittance of tax jargon

Which the rich will abhor

And therefore not pay .
So it will stay as a theory ,

And a nice one at that, 

That one day the richest

Might pay us all back . 

I’d like to see him wear a powdered wig, laugh and give a big smirk 

“If they must live off food banks, then let them eat cake”.

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Monsters

06 Monday Jul 2015

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What scared me most

When they came for us, 

Is that they looked so… Normal.

I mean, they weren’t monstrous,

Or cruel-faced, just… People.
But they still took us,

Bound our hands and led away

From our Velvet refrain .

Harsh light, stale bread,

Await our ‘rebellious’ frames.
I held your hand, 

For as long, as I could.

I could, 

until they forced us apart.

They still took you.
The worst part, 

As they tore out my heart,

Was that awful, dreadful, Normalcy

Children, scared of the dark.

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