Elizabeth will be dead
‘fore HS2 opens –
Charles’ll become king
of a state long broken/
Billionaires profit
by Covid-charmed sites
whilst scared kids carry
much sharper knives/
Britain now flounders
as a small island state
shrinking with ignorance
& right-wing hate
[Me] It was easily missed – shared threats
of World War Three – Not being there – on
social media & spending one le week-end
bunkered – sat – before sport from Africa
& so few – too few – clicks of stately news
My hunkering against thought [to protect
& survive in our Brave New World of ego –
of tweets & news] Choose your consommé
& your plat principal – feed on your choice
but do also ask from whom it was sourced
His resting place is
constantly watched
One-eyed witnesses
around Marx’s tomb
at 30 frames/second
to corroborate those
radicals’ movements
between cold marble
and cracking granite
Plunderers – robbers –
aim their spray paint
on his entrenchment
and paint sauvistikas
instead of swastikas
Ignorance & politics –
they’re restless again
Those mob-mindful
leaders –
your haters –
your righteous orators
have raised
their volume to that
once of The Left
They mop up swathes
of disaffected souls
in insolent heartlands
by underhand sales
of hope on Amazon
Post to Facebook your prizes
And Left-Wing resentments
seem to threaten more
than resolve
as old moderations are now
spoken of as if weaknesses
in politics – else whipped
Extreme measures
are needed
Politics is now a
vomiting disease
1.
Ill-faced white people settle
and preen in that afterglow
off their stoked shit-storms
as fools refuel on Facebook
2.
Deceivers take to easy airwaves
with urgency and loud spittle
as puppet-fisted politicians
unroll scrolls of lies on cue
3.
Carriers of an alt-right litany
cannot sleep soundly until
their prayers have been spread
For them – fear must be shared
4
We do not mute screaming
hit-buffeted streams
of spitting alt-voices
found by lost innocents
5
Your drawn eyes must rise
from teleprompters that blind
to see over such tilting screens
and to read between their lines
