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Saturday, 1 March 2014

The Line Up


Quiet hopeless calm in a sweat filled room
This room of desperate tragedy

Hated and blamed for a crisis caused by the rich
Charge with the crime of being poor

Local cuts mean your bus is late
Installs fear as you take your place in line
Looking round seeing others, a mirror of you

Wide eyed and fear in theirs eyes
Thinking how will I feed my babes?

You can hear the sounds from the ones already processed
On this production line of sorrow

Some weep like babies, for their poor babies
Others get enraged another incident logged

The assistants sharing this fear
Fear of being put in a must improve
A must improve, and a line up for them too

The manager a pillory of pomposity
Hiding behind rules that are a mask for hate

The manager half your age dumb down
Indoctrinated to discriminate, all for the hate of you

The Manager so prim and proper, so respectable
Shuffling around like they have a toffee apple stuffed up there well fed arse

You were once a proud soldier of King Arthur
Now reduced to a bit part in a freak show

You once worked the Mines or steel Mills for years
Worked so hard and long, Work just worked you out

Clapped out lungs and a back of glass
Being looked at in contempt by the ones,
Who know nothing other than Benefit Street for fools?

Acting on orders to look down on you
But its ok the Media has done a first rate job on you

They turned us from proud Fathers and Mothers into sub human species
For mocking, shocking, and stocking
They slap the sanction on you
The manager looking like, their having a multiple orgasm

All in a day in the line up of intolerance
Another victim of a brutalised state

©Martin Hickman, February 2014


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