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.