So many are falling from the skies, of comfortable lives

Until between the clouds, we can see me and you

Drinking in the bar one minute

Then outside Tesco

Mouths ajar

So many are breaking up inside

Falling from the skies,

Of comfortable lives

Passing the credit cards

Trying to grasp Universal Credit

Fingertips touching their children

On the way down

La...

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Sleep well tonight

With your burning

Log fire

Scurrying and searching,

For that 12 year old wine

A steaming shower

Cooled with luxury cosmetics,

Burning your botox lips

Sleep well tonight,

Holding on to those

Curled up in fresh satin sheets

And what troubles you?

You don’t want the poor

Living in a block of flats next door.

Well, now yo...

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Strong and unstable

Get down on your knees

You have nothing between your ears

Love me… love me, please

Don’t have a conscious

We can do without that

We’ve capped your ability to think clear

Vote for me…

I have lovely beads

I’m a strong bitch

I’ll kick your street lights out

I’ll make the north a level playing field

A car park with zero hours contractors at ...

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No sooner have I tied my shoe laces then another chore begins

One door closes and another left ajar

“please come in”

let the ceremony of rejection begin.

I’m at pains to tell them I was not always like this, then realise I’m at Tesco’s with a grapefruit in my hand

“ahh never mind”

Life is racing past me

Like the horse I bet on at the 3.25 crippled with anxiety

“ah...

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They answered the call to prayer

On their knees

For the unholy one ..

For the veil to fall on every woman’s face

Every beer to be swiped from every hand

They answered the call 

Of the devil, dry and poisonous to touch

to…

Slash

 Ataturk’s throat

Snap

 Freedom of speech

Gas

Protesters and leave their bodies hanging in the streets

Turn Kurds

 In...

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Under the soft snow of Alabama

They let him hang from a tree

To tell them “no one messes with Mary Lee”

In a classroom 50 miles south they picked on María Guadalupe.

And made her lick pee

At a special school they broke off for tea, went back to their dormitories

And saw Steve Jane and others too burnt to see

In the Island of the dead

They made America cremate...

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