RED BUTTON
- Somewhere in Whitehall
- or maybe Yorkshire
- lives Red Button
- a gangster’s moll
- (late of Kings Bay Georgia
- where they also teach torture)
- press her for a favour
- and she can cause a universal
- funeral pyre
- the UK no more
- great tracts of the world
- in ashes
- radiation galore
- yet at BBC Question Time
- in beautiful York
- some shout seduce her seduce her
- seduce her
- angrily the tongues clash
- kiss her kiss her kiss her kiss her
- that will work
- they imply the bearded man at the dais
- has no balls
- not like these sturdy tykes
- who with war are enthralled
- hoping under the oceans
- out of satellite sight
- the avenging US-made Trident
- impregnates death
- Red Button Red Button
- don’t heed the commotion
- be less strident
- for you too can draw
- the last breath
Wilson John Haire
GRENFELL TOWER
- Twenty-four storeys and a dozen different
- stories
- a blackened skeleton without eyes or
- ears
- the Tory
- goes gory
- profit at any price
- privatise all
- it’s not that they don’t feel
- for those flies that beat against
- the window pane
- and dying from exhaustion
- for they are upgraded to human beings
- on appeal
- or those screaming fledglings
- in their burning nest
- who once were but second best
- and are now on the wing
- in Parliamentary rafters
- such is genetically modified good
- in the hands of the grafters
Wilson John Haire.
CLIMBING THE MONEY TREE
- After Jack met the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- on the road
- and exchanged the old dry cow for a bag
- of magic beans
- it sure did goad
- his poor ma who scolded
- like a woodpecker
- and threw them into the garden
- it seems
- a mighty tree grew overnight
- and being in his teens
- he climbed it quickly with vigour
- to what looked like the Palace of Westminster
- or something bigger
- stacked high from ceiling to floor
- from wall to wall
- banknotes galore
- he felt he was due a few
- when a voice roared OUT
- and began to shout
- it’s six billion plus for two aircraft carriers
- one hundred billion for Trident
- this is not phantasmagoria
- it’s billions for failing banks
- do you think we have a money tree
- for the lower ranks
- now it’s down down down
- and looking for the axe
- no axe and its lose your home
- being class-cleansed out of town
- it’s take ma and hit the road Jack
Wilson John Haire.
NOT ANOTHER BURDEN!
- It’s the White-Man’s-Burden again
- this Middle-East thing
- they have missionaries but they don’t do
- Zen
- they fly in with a bomber wing
- don’t do bibles
- or hymn-sing
- don’t bring law-and-order
- for it already exists
- their mission is to bring
- disorder
- dysfunctioning puts nations in a
- wheelchair
- till they get the gist
- and compare
- liberal democracy
- with their bespoke dictatorship
- of obduracy
- let a thousand weeds bloom
- and a hundred Jihadist schools of thought
- contend
- wheel on nurse
- among those three wise men from the East
- there is a friend.
Wilson John Haire.
Labour Affairs Magazine 