MISS SOCIAL HOUSING 2016
- The day that I saw you I knew
- you were meant for me
- and although they’re in the queue for you
- I hope you’ll give me your key
- maybe you don’t care
- but your looks have caused me to stare
- night and day you’re in my dreams
- I wander the streets longing for you
- my thoughts would take up many reams
- I see you everywhere an illusion that’s true
- did I see on your profile a wonderful beam
- they say a man shouldn’t tell a woman his history
- but I confess to having a wife and three children in care
- while you remain an enigma a mystery
- some may try and buy you so beware
- I don’t suppose you’ll accommodate me now
- so I’ll just go back to my wife in that squalid hotel
- I won’t mention you anymore I vow
- I’ll just mourn not getting such a belle
- I look through the dusty window
- through the cat-clawed net curtains
- there are cranes a building
- but not for her and her beaus
- I shout: `Don’t sell yourself it’s a sin!’
- stop looking out
- for out there there’s no hope
- she’s gone no doubt
- they didn’t make more of her
- you dope
- put the mattresses on the floor
- settle down the children
- once more
- be nice to your wife for in one room
- there can be trouble and strife
Wilson John Haire.
NEARER THY BATTLEFIELD TO THEE
- The tragic death of an MP by a
- political impossible
- makes this nation
- irascible
- in the remoteness of office
- in matters of life and death
- a novice
- about countries they’ll never
- know
- good people can make bad decisions
- for other people that can lead to
- woe
- urged on by bad people with an agenda
- they don’t show
Wilson John Haire.
PIGGY BANK BURGLAR
- He has so many toys but he wants
- more
- the public provides him with the funds on that
- score
- he plays in his bath with two
- boats
- and there’s room for another one to
- float
- he is the Genghis Khan of the financial
- world
- the union jack he regularly
- unfurls
- though it rarely rises above
- half-mast
- it still procured a knighthood from a PM in the
- past
- a family member holds his
- wallet
- in a centrally-heated hyde park where banknotes are kept on
- pallets
- being taxed must be another
- connotation
- all legal but morally
- wrong
- such enterprise can buy more
- gongs
- that piggy bank on the
- mantelpiece
- some of its contents have been
- released
- meant for that rainy day when winter
- comes
- and there’s few teeth on the
- gums
- so very little for those who worked all their
- lives
- some stood up but were
- despised
- in the land of the call-centre
- food-bank
- where the climate is mainly
- dank
- PAYE will fill the gap so that’s
- all right.
Wilson John Haire.
Labour Affairs Magazine 