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Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Hallowe'en - or normal service?

On Hallowe'en the Devil walks,
Or so we're told by those who mock
Both humanist and Church's flock.
In New York they may think it true:
A hurricane went howling through.
Come ghosts and ghouls just once a year,
At other times we need not fear?
Then what is Gideon George Osborne?

A spectre who haunts the land,
He makes his ghastly demands:
A sacking here, a cutback there,
He drives the people to despair.
Far more than any apparition,
He spreads stark fear without contrition,
And rolls back the frontiers of the state.
He's the vehicle of rich men's hate.

For him it's all a jolly joke,
While those he ruins cough and choke.
The nation's debt gives him the chance
To lead us on a Devil's dance.
Murdoch's henchmen spread his lie
They care not if the poor folk die.
The Daily Wail expounds his views,
They hack at us and call it news.

Mental illness is now banned,
Depressed folk's stipends are shit-canned.
If they are able just to move
Their lack of fitness they can't prove.
The Iron Canceller is glad
Of things that make the righteous sad.
The poor are never poor enough,
The rich just pile up useless stuff.

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