The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V
Spawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When warmly embraced by
Every self-serving boast brazenly
Conveyed...
To be exploited, and thus,
Insidiously betrayed!
Under the fortressed arches
And into the newly built courts -
An architects realized vision
Showingly sports:
Communal gardens, devoid of
Glasshouses,
Rows of potatoes...
An absence of trailing and
Flowering Sweet peas;
But complete with a regulation
Once fortnightly Cut lawn,
Surrounded with borders of
Wood-pulp,
Herein, specifically positioned
To please:
Indiscriminately planted
Rhododendron,
Slug infested Hostas, and
Stunted miniature Maple leafed
Trees.
Dragging on long and slender cigs,
Stepping over mediocre aspirations,
Which, regrettably, inevitability
Now forbids,
Come trudging single-mothers
Hauling groups of unruly and
Irksome kids.
Compounding their problematic
Health issues
Reinforced by snacking on
Comforting habits -
Bulging from every fur-lined
Pocket
Of their zippered-up jackets.
Disposable plastic bags stuffed
With many tins, bottles,
And cheap "Ready-to-eat" microwave
Deals,
That, for all vitamin deficient sins -
Suit all ideals;
The uncaring volunteer delivering
In turn,
To the elderly and infirm,
The barely warm "Meals-upon-wheels".
Traversing shadowy paths to avoid
Where the stooping and hooded
Dealer hawks his lurid appeals;
Routinely confronting the drunkard
Who, staggering homeward, totters
And reels
Along past troublesome defences
Of overgrown embankments and
Redundant sidings -
Resplendent in outrageously outlaid
And profanely sprayed graffiti
Offences!
Hankering for the comfort their
Prone forms should extract from
The cheap IKEA settee...
When looking forward to settling down
With a glossy "Womans Own" magazine -
And a nice cup of Rosie Lee!
A glass of sparkling white wine...
Some precious stolen moments with
A favourite Crooners CD.
Firstly however, and in this we are
Convinced any reasonable woman
Would most wholeheartedly agree,
She must dutifully prepare a well
Furnished table
For a hard working-man to partake...
Of his plentiful and much deserved
Tea.
Thus are her loving actions so
Calculated
Such that spousely reciprocation
Should adoringly invoke;
Much rather, in joyful release,
Happily place her hands around his
Greedy throat,
And, in enraged fury -
The wretched life out of him to
Earnestly choke!
Such are these shortened lives
That ill afforded actions all so
Soon to Unavoidably broach,
Delivered through clamouring
Consumption
Encouraged by the perceptions
And allure of the populist vote.
A doctrine that appeals to the
Craven interests and unsustainable
conceptions
Of the bickering indulgent-classes;
This, by the grace of God, we
Should so fervently pray not ever
Have to undergo;
Wavering loyalties easily dissuaded...
Then put quietly to one side,
And turning their backs
Against the prevailing party,
Desert and deride -
When to self-righteously Overthrow!
The sadly predictable backlash
When contrasting a collective
Consciousness against the many
Failings and injustices
Of the prevailing Status Quo.
Caught up in the clutches of an
Inescapable,
Downwardly collapsing Spiral
They cling to vague hopes of good
Fortune,
Dogged by the spectre of jingoistic
Arrival,
That will hopefully usher in the
Reforms
Of an ailing nations needy but
Improbable revival.
Confusing the unimportant issues
Even further:
Fast fading remnants of yesteryear
Where fleeting memories briefly
Meet...
To help compound intellect and
Rational thinking -
Into confounded and utter defeat!
Copyright © John Fleming | Year Posted 2016
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