the mainstream media
love the alternative right
or as i say, just the right
read into that what you will
is this white power
with a show reel?
Category: Poems November 2016
Campaigning for Something Fairer (Originally Untitled) – Written November 2016 (Aged 41)
i am interested in social justice
but now the right wing grip
decides that,
despite being full of people
who have benefited
from progressive social justice
You Do Not See Me For Now (Originally Untitled) – Written November 2016 (Aged 41)
i held onto you
but then i realised
it was my seventeen year old self
my eighteen, nineteen
and even twenty year old self
I Am Not Slick (Originally Untitled) – Written November 2016 (Aged 41)
and i saw how
he fitted in
and how i never have
and how,
talent,
and obvious clumsiness
It Looked Like Chaos (Originally Untitled) – Written November 2016 (Aged 41)
those diaries
so poetic
but…
it look like chaos
Keep Pushing – Written November 2016 (Aged 41)
combined with insecurity
and a lack of self esteem
with compassion
and humanity
is that not,
the recipe of so called insanity
Bankrupt (Originally Untitled) – Written November 2016 (Aged 41)
aspiration easily docks as compassion sails away
you can rage at the political class
but down in the theatres
the corporations star in a wealthy farce
You Cannot Dry it In the Rain – Written November 2016 (Aged 41)
no one has listened
to a truth in his tears
he is found by the liars
who easily mobilise his lonely years