G.W. Colkitto
G. W. Colkitto has been published in poetry magazines and anthologies including Emergency Verse and The Robin Hood Book. Winner of the Scottish Writers Short Story Competition 2011 and Poetry Competition 2012, and SearScial Festival Poetry 2014.
He’s dreaming of a Blue Christmas
Good George Osborne now looks out
from his Autumn Statement
as we poor lie round about
starving on the pavement
brightly shines the Tory light
on the rich and famous
smiling they ignore our plight
and happily defame us
Hard working families come and see
the truth they will be telling
yonder peasant who is he
where and what his dwelling
to them we’re scroungers on the dole
just a bunch of losers
a crime which they no-longer thole
these benefit abusers
stop their cash, is what they say
beat them till they whimper
they can work for zero pay
Cameron will not dither
Ian Duncan Smith is in a rage
there is no one fonder
of cutting off the poor man’s wage
and making him much thinner
In these steps they are like God
they’ll hear no other voices
they’ll rid this land of all these sods
by giving them no choices
we’ll live in hell for Tory years
they’ll live the life of Reilly
the poor are here to give them cheer
at home in dear old Blighty.
thistles stretch their prickly arms afar