IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE!
Plain and Simple
by Bob Beagrie
“The great who trod our fathers down,
Who steal our children’s bread,
Whose hands of greed are stretched to rob
The living and the dead.”
– A Rebel Song, James Connolly, 1903
They consider us fools because we went
to underfunded state schools
They think themselves superior based on
their self-perpetuating criteria
They smile for the media prank of a public
relations visit to a food bank
They label workers greedy because we
refuse to let our children go hungry
They protect the stolen commons behind
privately patrolled cordons
They believe they’re unaccountable as if
the law was merely a fable
Their rules for correct living were written in
the raised welts of whippings
They strip away our rights as if we were
a separate race of troglodytes
Their upbringing of entitlement is based
on our ancestral belittlement
They plunder the nation’s wealth with
the impunities of power and stealth
They package themselves as celebrities
while building personal oligarchies
They heat private swimming pools while
our families shudder like ghouls
They spin a soundbite to show they care
as they dance to the tune of a billionaire
They’ll say whatever ‘the people’ want while
lining the pocket of a super-rich cunt.
We’re tired of being gaslighted, it’s time
their positions were dynamited.
