NATIONAL DEMENTIA
TV journalists yap as if on
liquor
a million candles
flicker
tired are the hands of the flower
picker
union jacks and tricolours no longer
bicker
but every day two nations become
sicker
vile messages of hatred on impromptu
stickers
red white and blue on national monuments
glitters
the voices of the sane are drowned out by
snickers
the faces scowl on Big Ben that giant
ticker
drop your fists we are Europe the ultra
hitter
they created a river of blood and now we are
its tributaries
high-stress patriotism makes it flow
quicker.
Labour Affairs Magazine 