Underdeveloped ?
I arrived at the gates of hell
to witness the doomed battle
against the drug barons of Medellin, body
counts multiplying amidst
the inferno of rival
barons, guerrillas, hired
assassins and marauding
teenage gangs , crime 10 crimestoppers 0
greed and power
twin kings but only a vision
of raw, blood and guts capitalism
in reality
Peter Burton June 2006
Freedom !
Possible return to the Victorian nightmare
Of extreme wage-slavery
Scapegoated powerless immigrants
Eaten up by
Late British Capitalism
Swallowed down whole by
Corruption and greed
Destroyer of dreams
Creator of bitterness
And crimes
We all need socialism
ALL!
Peter Burton July 2006
The History Man ?
I once went for an interview
as a young man lacking guile
The two man interview panel
kept me waiting quite a while
They then asked me why I wanted
to teach history so very much
I replied that historys’ lessons
were what kept humanity in touch
With where we’d been
and where we’re going
and how to get us there
They looked at each other
then back at me like
I’d come to them
as part of some mad dare
Peter Burton June 2006
Some Men
Manipulate , play the game
Come across as a nice guy
Bed them, don’t wed them
And then you say goodbye.
Peter Burton
Zimmermann
Rimbaud, Verlaine, Thomas and Shelley
Ferlingheeti, Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsburg
Williams, Presley, Guthrie and Johnson
Brando and Peck , Dean and the Bible
Just some of the things that influenced you
Underdeveloped ?
I arrived at the gates of hell
to witness the doomed battle
against the drug barons of Medellin, body
counts multiplying amidst
the inferno of rival
barons, guerrillas, hired
assassins and marauding
teenage gangs , crime 10 crimestoppers 0
greed and power
twin kings but only a vision
of raw, blood and guts capitalism
in reality
Peter Burton June 2006
Freedom !
Possible return to the Victorian nightmare
Of extreme wage-slavery
Scapegoated powerless immigrants
Eaten up by
Late British Capitalism
Swallowed down whole by
Corruption and greed
Destroyer of dreams
Creator of bitterness
And crimes
We all need socialism
ALL!
Peter Burton July 2006
The History Man ?
I once went for an interview
as a young man lacking guile
The two man interview panel
kept me waiting quite a while
They then asked me why I wanted
to teach history so very much
I replied that historys’ lessons
were what kept humanity in touch
With where we’d been
and where we’re going
and how to get us there
They looked at each other
then back at me like
I’d come to them
as part of some mad dare
Peter Burton June 2006
Some Men
Manipulate , play the game
Come across as a nice guy
Bed them, don’t wed them
And then you say goodbye.
Zimmermann
Rimbaud, Verlaine, Thomas and Shelley
Ferlingheeti, Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsburg
Williams, Presley, Guthrie and Johnson
Brando and Peck , Dean and the Bible
Just some of the things that influenced you
Ali
Courageous , charismatic, principled and straight as day
“Ain’t no Vietcong called me nigger” you said
And showed your countrymen the way
The House that Jack built
( or chief puddin)
O How ad like to slap yer face
Great puddin o the Scottish race
Ye stand up there
Dodgin beams
And spoutin forth so much
Tosh and reams
of lies and spittle
A great first Minister in Jack McConnell?
We’d be better aff wi Daniel O’ Donnell
The man with the iron mask (1)
Affable, intelligent
popular as well
But underneath that mask you wear
Your as sectarian as hell !
Ali
Courageous , charismatic, principled and straight as day
“Ain’t no Vietcong called me nigger” you said
And showed your countrymen the way
The House that Jack built
( or chief puddin)
O How ad like to slap yer face
Great puddin o the Scottish race
Ye stand up there
Dodgin beams
And spoutin forth so much
Tosh and reams
of lies and spittle
A great first Minister in Jack McConnell?
We’d be better aff wi Daniel O’ Donnell
The Man with the Iron mask (1)
Affable, intelligent
popular as well
But underneath that mask you wear
Your as sectarian as hell !
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