Philip Johnson
just another day in Osborneland
All Saturday the priest used to practice his sermon
now opens up Sunday to the hungry and homeless
more intent on survival than bluster.
Where are the fish and the five thousand?
The priest is unable to say and hurries away
quickly blessing
to the local shops where the suit with a smile offers a welcome
and shares - banking and profit from loyalty on the store card
We encourage under twenty-fives go kiss our the footprints
in the sand
This is austerity (open all hours) 2015
thistles stretch their prickly arms afar
Philip Johnson's poetry has been published in: Emergency Verse & The Robin Hood Book, The Ugly Tree, Poetry Now, Anchor Poets, North West Disabled Writers Group & Mid Cheshire Writers Group, and online at: Write Away, Caught In The Net, The Red Pencil, Poets Against The War, The Writer's Hood & transparent Words.
Arbeit macht frei 2015
its a craft
the art is
to be stopped in the classroom
as it is
too dangerous nowadays
to do as I do not
do as I say
stop
start work stop
sleep and work no rest
stop
the party of the working man
will ensure freedom
through opportunity
to work
stop
art is not to be seen as any serious profession
and should not be wasted upon our youth
in schools or higher establishments
of education
work shall free us all
(Cameron to ban WhatsApp and similar electronic forms of communication
while Chancellor cuts off Child Tax Credits and other credentials)
Keystone Conservatism
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all it takes is for good men to do nothing
thistles stretch their prickly arms afar
Militant Thistles