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Philip Johnson

just another day in Osborneland

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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

atos
Poor Doors
Sheriff Stars
spikes

thistles stretch their prickly arms afar

Black Triangle
bedroom tax
Disrupt and Upset

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

The Crazy Gang

Murder Inc.

 

all it takes is for good men to do nothing

triangle_small
spikes
bedroom tax
Sheriff Stars

thistles stretch their prickly arms afar

Black Triangle
Disrupt and Upset

Militant Thistles

prickling the politics of "permanent austerity"

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