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Ey Mister Lan’Lor’!

Ey Mister Lan’Lor’!

1 May 2022 /Posted byMike Jenkins
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Ey Mister Lan’Lor’!

by Mike Jenkins, with image by Gus Payne

Tell me, Mister Lan’lor’
wha yew doin t me?
Jest me an my kid
tryin t make ends meet.
I work like a dog
a collie chasin sheep,
I’m on yewer leash.

Carn afford no car,
train fares always goin up,
food prices beyond
‘lectric’s the same –
yew wan’ us t end
up on-a street?

Ey Mister Lan’lor’
I know yew gotta make money,
buh yew goh more ouses
than I goh GCSEs
an I done tidee
even though I work in Tragos.

Yew ever gone without?
Gone to a foodbank?
Secon’ thoughts I’m more like a sheep,
with yew snappin us inta pens.
Wha’s-a fewture, eh?
Some ewman blydi abbatoir?

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Mike Jenkins is a retired teacher who lives in Merthyr Tydfil, in the Welsh Valleys. He’s the editor of several anthologies for Culture Matters, including Yer Ower Voices! and We Not Me / Ni Nid Fi, anthologies of radical poetry from Cymru. Mike is an activist in both the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the ecosocialist republican movement Cymru Rising / Cymru’n Codi.

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