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Aug 24
lily rests her head on the table
if there were freebread, so as people
could satiate their hunger rather then
their anger..

a knock on the door sunday morn-the table
but we shall have to be naked and starving
and storming the bastille again before
anyone notices..

still, we have food banks-when
marie-antoinette was told the people
of paris were starving for lack of bread
she famously anwered-then,let them eat

cake-which was an inferior product
probably inedible..and such callousness
led to the downfall of the monarchy
it would actually pay the powers that be

to demonstrate some generosity..(more likely
to find snow in july..)
whoยดs at the door..?pop,goes the cork..
ahhhh..sunday..

ii

why is there such poverty in this
rich country?who is there?
why is there hunger?

traditionally, it has been so
history again..in the victorian era
britain was the richest most powerful
country in the world and yet

3/4 of the population lived in
the most abject poverty..
and now the gap between rich and
poor has spiralled out of sight..

not because the poor are poorer
that would be impossible but there
is the billionaire-there is a letter for her..
she looks at it like where

did you find this..as usual they divide
and conquer-now,migrants are the enemy..
o look a poem from crow..they talk of
the trillionaire-it is like monopoly..

one day one person will-it is called
own everything-i will be the dog..
no wonder people live off rada as they
say..

iii

i will be the dog and you
can be the racing car or top hat
and we will hit the town!

it matters not what they do
we dance and laugh..
donne the crown

the weeping willow
some pretty tat
love and freedom..

i am a do-do
the latest cat
you my queen..

and we go-go
some eternal night
where adam and eve dream..

a no-no
the delicious whites
and black seem

the same woes
the same euphoria blights
is and has been..

as is now
human rights
above everything..

iv

yeah.crow we must go out
some time..pours some wine
though i am a recovering alcoholic

of 31 years..that is mine..
you know time is time
tick-tick..
Written by
Michael John  62/M/SPAIN
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