The rich versus the people
by Ira Lightman
Some rich think they cleverly
simmer us sleepy –
cos we’d jump if it got too hot.
The leaders their media got
us try to sell off the NHS.
Mouthpiece and paymaster don’t realise
we the oppressed are
brighter than we were;
more schooled, as the norm.
Our grandmas, our grandpas, began the reforms,
and we will get it all back –
at twice what in tax
the short-termists
think they’ve abolished.
Their militia
never
hold us back long. The people
surge; will.
Caravaggio, The taking of Christ, 1602
Turn the other cheek
by Ira Lightman
Jesus was not least
telling the powerful
receiving be merciful
to the slappers oppressed.
Watch the older brother
take the attack
and not hit “back”
the squeaking impatient younger.
