A NEW LOW
- His family came from a failed state
- he said
- this Manchester suicide bomber
- who once wore football red
- so calm
- the journalist sits in his wheelchair
- his body still suffers lead
- the TV camera pans
- to a bloody scene
- he doesn’t say who failed it
- and is it Libya he means
- you don’t see the wheelchair
- for he has been here before
- with his propaganda
- gunned down in the Middle East
- did they see him less than candour
- hasn’t he learnt anything
- you might wonder
- before the BBC made him
- an expert
- now he can binge
- while I hope you ponder
Wilson John Haire.
TAKING A RISE OUT OF HIM
- He’s the archbishop of social democracy
- of the troublesome priest kind
- media assassins scurry
- in a country where heaven waits
- while hell is in a
- hurry
- to wish him a last supper
- hoping the many Judas
- will fill their wallets
- and destroy his vision
- in a sham ballot
- his disciples cover all
- those treated with derision
- the Muslim victim of a
- slum landlord
- compassion calls as a Hindu
- suffers racial discord
- anti-Semitism
- so much unkindness
- in a queue
- class not race not faith
- is the forgotten schism
- tabloids make a papier mâché
- cross
- another one for the great
- cosmos
- to rise again
- but this time it’s up to you
- when
Wilson John Haire.
THE SACRIFICIAL
- Suicide bombing the great fertilizer
- of political careers
- in hit-spots you lift the visor
- and with your narrow view
- cast a tear
- while looking only at your
- world
- denying the reason for this yet again
- you now get your union jack
- unfurled
- whilst knowing there will be new
- dead
- as you continue to kill nations
- something has to be paid
- anybody will do except you
- no min/max age
- no particular race/faith in the
- terminal queue
- all will be engaged.
Wilson John Haire.
Labour Affairs Magazine 