By Arran Potts
You can barely afford to live,
go back to Old Kent Road.
COMMUNITY CHEST
Your empty houses have been
given to the homeless;
advance three spaces.
You try to get out of London
via Euston station,
miss a turn.
You run pell-mell down
Pall Mall to
wave a flag at the king;
collect three
patriotic comments
from each player.
CHANCE
You take part in a protest:
Go to jail.
Go directly to jail.
Do not pass GOV,
do not collect £200.
Power cuts affect your town;
increase bill by 7%.
At Bow Street,
you realise that there is a two-tier
policing system where you can’t
say anything without getting arrested
but murderers and gangs go free
cos they’re not the doctors and
lawyers we were promised and
I blame the mayor and Enoch
was right.
You are hounded by Fleet Street
for being gay;
go back 30 years.
HS2 is coming through your estate,
sell your house;
do not pass GOV,
do not collect £200.
Piccadilly.
You want go and see
Miss Saigon;
you must mortgage your
houses for a ticket.
Your water is brown,
the river full of dead fish;
Water Works charge more.
The name’s Street, Bond Street.
Oligarchs and hedge-funders
own Mayfair and Park Lane;
pass GOV, collect £1Bn.
Keep moving
go back
pay rent
roll dice;
build communities,
change the game.
