Workfare Makes You Free

Remember the old days?
Where you gave them the dignity
Of shaving their heads
And issuing striped uniforms?

And then there was the expense
Of building the huts
To keep them all in with their typhoid
It's great to know things have changed!

Remember the old days?
When companies in secrecy
Were allowed profiteering
And everyone looked the other way?

Today we face the weather
And fear if things were worst still
That our glorious opposition
Would invoke the spirit of Churchill
By knowing it was going on
But doing nothing to stop this

I think of the future days
Unlikely people in police raids
For writing a novel denying today had happened
"Police are searching for a gang
That in broad daylight yesterday
Sawed up the sign from 'Tesco's'
Put it into a van and drove away..."

© Aaron Murdoch

Tesco drops 'job for benefits' ad
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Aaron Murdoch performs poetry around Liverpool and Wirral. He is unemployed, but looking into becoming "self employed" when his first collection "Twenty From Ten" will be published around May by lastbenchpress.

St Andrews Worksong

The cat provided cover
But still aware the trap was closing?
When the Middle East controlled
By less than 3% of the World...
It played no other part in the story
Except it survived

Recruitments in state school on the edge of Atlantic
Where they were once fired
It's now handshakes and welcomes
On every available surface
In every valuable language
So when they graduate to Embassy
They can gather and report work back?
A bright new dawn
Of enlightenment?
I don't need to build a shelter
I can predict the weather
The Middle East goes on forever

Many more will get murdered
But more eyes will open
You will not see this reported
So enjoy camcorder footage
When the Middle East controlled
By less than 3% of the world...

© Aaron Murdoch

MI5 advertises for possible recruits in St Andrews University student newspaper

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Aaron Murdoch is from Wirral and performs poetry widely around Merseyside. More at: Write Out Loud.