Just vote

And if you’re not careful they’ll throw bricks through your windows.

Goes to show, you who think you’re in the know, don’t know

anything at all, you could be working on a market stall

touting your tatty wares.

We don’t care that you’re there or

What you try to do.

We’ll just expose you to our horrible disingenuous spite

should you fight, strike, allow the like

of the right and his ilk to steal money and

milk and spin cotton into silk for

the rich while they privatise and monetise and fantasise about

an island without poor and shut the front door to refugees and those that can’t help it.

Helpless people, we’re all sheep and we’re just keeping this going.

Let down the shutters, earwig on those mutters of insidious hatred,

We have waited too long and bated our breath under duress

and at the behest of our nation and some say our creation but just pure procrastination

we let it happen. We obey.

Lefty they say, lefty they shout, get them all out,

It’s a drought of humour and humanity and what is left of depravity is

In the US waving placards and flags, “We hate fags”.

In the schools and in the bedrooms, these cages of cobwebs

That spindle around the brain and riddle the soul

are asking for a name, an unticked box.

like chickenpox. It’s itchy, so scratch it

An unhinged door on a latch and an unlit match and they’re

Waiting. What are you so afraid of?