COLD WAR HEATING
- It was to be a bulwark
- against
- the US
- then the watch-dogs of the nation
- awoke
- and barked
- bad cess to this domination
- what had
- happened
- happened as more of
- an
- aberration
- and what was that about the
- power
- of
- a European trade union
- with
- our
- brothers and sisters
- in
- permanent
- universal communion
- a dispute in
- Birmingham
- being a dispute
- in Paris
- in Berlin
- worker’s healing balm
- were we
- dreaming
- as they became interwoven
- with NATO
- aggression
- Russia again threatened by
- the Hessian
- the Ukraine
- their former Nazi ally
- the truth
- belied
- Obama invited over to protect
- the American
- stake
- given permission to decide
- Westminster’s
- fate
- crime scene crime scene
- says
- the tape.
Wilson John Haire.
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LIVE AND LET DIE
- What a sight I saw the other day
- where financiers come to pray
- I was cycling through the City of London
- that square mile of everything abundant
- there was this billionaire crying beside the
- horn of plenty
- yes, a blue-chip cognoscenti
- there there I said dry your eyes
- everybody dies
- but no one in his life was dead
- as far as he had read
- or the TV screen had said
- instead
- twas the living-wage hourly rate
- up fifty pence without his dictate
- that brought the tears
- as the mob jeered
- it would now be seven pounds twenty
- an hour
- being under twenty-five years old a bar
- still a wage much too far
- what would Tesco and Whitbread do now
- poor things
- it was cull-time even for those who
- cringe and cling
- now one person would have to do three jobs
- it was either that or agree to be robbed
- I did see his point of view
- as I joined the food-bank queue
- and he called for his chauffeur
- and his limousine to bear
- him to a the Guildhall dinner
- I know
- we can’t all be winners
- now my bike’s got a flat tyre
- but I still aspire
- to get a job before I retire
- or expire.
Wilson John Haire
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CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME?
- Feed the machine
- tap a tenner
- into your mobile
- after this scene
- adjust your antenna
- children cry
- these pictures are vile
- children with flies
- children with malnutrition
- children about to die
- this is your opportunity
- for contrition
- watch the TV screen
- they are orphans of Ebola
- of Aids
- this could damage your
- immunity
- you are the well-fed
- so don’t be mean
- it’s fade-out for these
- black babes-
- we interrupt this programme
- with some breaking-news
- it’s a six-nation bombing
- raid
- on Libya
- no children with flies
- no children with malnutrition
- no children about to die
- no orphans of Ebola
- of Aids
- what children
- I don’t see any children
- I don’t hear any children
- cry.
Wilson John Haire
Labour Affairs Magazine 