DISEMBODIED VOICES
- how do you treat rust
- ah that made you frown
- usually with a lot of fuss
- promise that it will go away
- thought it’s spread throughout
- the town
- it must obey
- mortar-board and gown
- the speech-writer said
- on the campaign trail
- it’s words in the mouth of
- the well-paid
- so get real
- just vote you dope
- then at least you’ll have
- hope
- let’s rewrite that
- did I promise you a yacht
- no
- a review
- of this rust-belt
- the naked truth stands here
- in its pelt
- maybe a little uncouth
- okay
- come alive
- hey
- I’m saying you exist
- and I shall remember you
- if your voting persists
- they called him a son-of-a-bitch
- he and his great big Russia
- run like
- in the days of Prussia
- now that I’ve been elected sober and sane
- I’m asking you
- not to complain
- this great big country
- Russia
- to it I sing
- doh ray me fah
- come bear and let us together
- cling
- to trade
- which they forbade
- and in all that oil we can wade
- just a moment
- the phone
- was it meant
- can’t answer I’m hollowed
- out
- there’s a hand up my back
- I can’t whisper
- I can’t shout
- I sit on someone’s knee
- a southern comfort breath
- can’t reflect
- deaf
- a hack
- don’t know what I’m about
- son-of-a-bitch
- Russia like Prussia
- well that went without
- a hitch
- NATO
- don’t need it
- don’t heed it
- it’s America first
- walled America
- before it bursts
- let’s stop giving countries
- sciatica
- that brought in the liberals
- the baby boomers
- on the peripheral
- some Americans want to be
- decent
- too busy making money
- only
- heard that quite recent
- could I also be a honey
- back on that knee again
- they promised me my voice back
- but when
- in the meantime
- who do we whack
Wilson John Haire. 11th October, 2017
TRUTH AS AN ILLNESS
- It was beating the dollar-a-day
- bod
- someone
- robbed
- their family of food
- to make an IED
- concede
- so many prayers
- so many gods
- still there the wheelchair
- in care
- the examination
- here to share
- 16 years hasn’t fixed
- this mess
- never mind the tears
- it was duress
- that strategy
- for the region
- I know
- they’re leaking again
- my lesions
- but I haven’t passed
- have I
- no extra money
- may as well say
- goodbye
- wait?
- I’m not running
- this fodder won’t
- anymore
- double-march to order
- I do have
- post-traumatic-stress-disorder!
Wilson John Haire
MANNEQUIN AS PRESIDENT
- She ranted on about women’s rights in
- politics
- wanted a president in place without
- a dick
- she would use her maternal instinct to take humankind
- to her bosom
- though she didn’t mention the torturous death of Gaddafi and
- her laughing
- as gruesome
- nor of Bin laden and her loud wow at his demise
- by her country’s assassins
- and with each drone decapitation
- did she admit to a high-five
- she squeezes humanity out of the
- TV screen
- but the blood-waves lap the cyber-shore
- as she preens
- while the talk-show-host drives deaf-mute-blind
- through her valley of severed limbs
- whilst attending to her every
- whim
- his explosives are catherine-wheels
- his witches and demons
- makes for nothing more than Halloween
- so much chat
- nothing ever revealed
- it seems
Wilson John Haire.
Labour Affairs Magazine 