greed now
mrs thatcher
closed down the community
turned the family
son against dad
cost cut and cast out
out out out
and in come the bogeymen
the offshore tax break
multi-national
hand out
held out
out out
out
all the while the jack ass politician
ate at his own ass until at last
the final break of wind
was blown
©Philip Johnson
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/09/mark-harper-immigration-minister-resigns
Philip Johnson's poetry has previously appeared in: Poetry 24, The Ugly Tree; Poetry Scotland, Emergency Verse, Write Away, Caught In The Net, Red Pencil, Writer's Hood, Transparent Words; Emergency Verse and The Robin Hood Book.
