Europe
is in meltdown, high-interest rates
and expensive petrol and electricity
combined to impoverish countries after
country which threatens
Europe put their eggs in one basket
and became ruled by the USA
In Portugal, we see the dramatic rise
of "Chega" an anti-immigration party
that came from nowhere and won
third place in the election
people are fearing for their futures
and turning right
the disaster began with the bombing
of North stream two, an American
terror act helped by the US acolyte
the Norwegian Navy.
Norway has a lot of gas and oil, but she
is not master of her house, American
oil business still dictates
As for Britain, she is a basket case with
a foreign minister who talks like Britain
is a superpower it was in 1903
I fear Europe has had its time for China
and the Bricks countries are the new
masters
Europe will become a quaint place
for people of the East can visit to see
who how the dwellers used to live
so, not all is lost, the tourist industry
can employ servants and cooks
Money is a rabid dog
that does not need affection ...
If we throw a bone
farther, farther
it will fetch indefinitely ...
For some money
it's a distant past,
for others it is future ...
money for savings
rides a bicycle ...
money for speculation
at the light speed ...
Money is a ship
manned without pilot
automatic ... needs
operator ...
Money waits and
fosters crises for
snap up capital and
accumulate...
Money has the
maxim: "luxury is right"
for those who have it, naturally ...
Money dresses up as a tycoon
when the business is wasting ...
and banker when the case
is to catch money from others ...
Money is not an instrument,
he is the boss ... the most
well served finer he treats ...
Money is to enrich the rich,
and to impoverish the poor ...
Money when it is called capital.
is a predator of economies ...
society cannot control it
and choking alone ..
He is Robin Hood in reverse:
steals from the poor to
deliver to the rich ...!
Tale of woe is like plant that won't grow,
like light that won't dimmed or glow;
it wasn't well expressed when you still impoverish,
but it venerable when you become rich.
Images of incineration interrupt
Infernal imagery imposes in intricate intervals, illegible to those ill with ignorance
Inadequate ideologies imply impoverish ways, never to be incriminated no matter how idiotic
Inattentive to our imaginary inflation issues
Improvident to the waste of industrial indispensables
Keep ignoring the impending invasion and downward inclination or intercept the intrusion on your intellect and intervene
Invent instinctively into your own invincibility
An influx of idiots with no positive incline, our inability to feel insults our intelligence
Intolerant insecurities about income and the "it" influences impair our inner insight
This IS an impeachment against the institutions for informing the incredulous and inciting the irrelevant
I will stand intrepidly, inheriting the impending inferno
A black mythological bird
That lived for many years
Died on a pyre of slavery and impoverish
1960 a new phoenix was born
To move away from destitute
But still inherit the same load of poverty-stricken
Beautiful black and famished as ever
The same batches of infamy
Myopia leader that got paid for their blunders
Ethnic bickering, nation suffocates
War, hunger, job-devoid
Politician connive in the dark
No future with kleptocracy
More ranks to their siblings adorn
Nation sough siphoning off to aloof
The phoenix should die
And rebirth but lousy wings should decays
Conspiring locusts bring us plague, when fewer, good for catching fish,
The former more like devil's spawn that human lives impoverish,
The lean years seem to bring them out when futures look in doubt,
In good times though they lend a hand, help fishermen land trout.
It's crowding that's real enemy, lights fuse to 'population's bombs'
And fires up fascist enmity where good men morph to 'Uncle Toms!'
Our government looks like 'scorched earth;' is ignorance the cause?
Self-serving locusts storm our crops, devour protective laws!
Walt Kelly's possum Pogo said, "We've met the enemy, it's us!"
The far right hate has one design, to squash all science with a bus!
But when these locusts rape the land, they kill themselves as well,
I fear the 'present' they embrace bodes planetary Hell!
Brian Johnston
May 15, 2018
Impoverish the head
impoverish the body
impoverish the soul
of those who say
are citizens of nation
then nation is gone-
principles of banditry
in pre-literate, pre-modern
society of slumber
at work with no check
Shadows in dark corners, silhouetted figures
Floating down corridors of protected power,
Sanctuary for schemers and hungry vultures
Circling impoverished prey for them to devour,
grey suits that compliments their complexion
Their dark thoughts, intentions flow through their head
egoistical aims to promote re-election
to Westminster palace, blue,yellow green or red,
Political Party machines turn, produce laws
by invisible people in air conditioned
Rooms, payed for by my hard work and yours
For them to squander on favoured requisitioned,
Pacts and treaties sort on sports grounds,
amendments enhance ideological thoughts,
for power, to promote wealth has no bounds
anything in their way, they have high courts,
Power is the game, wealth is their ultimate aim,
to rule by fear, threats, to impoverish people,
World Politics are played, their goal exact same,
Why do we allow them to be so deceitful?
Heaven and earth you promised
On your knees you pleaded
you selfish ingrate, Bastard on your
father's land
Our help you sought for
All for your ruminating stomach
Our votes you asked for
to quench your political thirst
Tell me, you myopic being
Tell me! what wrong we've done you
Have you suddenly turn dumb,
dear politician?
conscience you've not?
Our votes you received
your steeping stones to power
Why impoverish us?
our rights you suck deep
National cake you enjoy
your promises you neglect
The poor you strangle impoverishly
the rich you discomfort
You sycophantically deceive us
Why impoverish your people?
Why impoverish your your father's land?
Why betray your source?
Dear politician, why faminise us economically?
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