If We Had Won The War
Oh, how different, if we had won the war!
There’d be no Nazis in The Whitehouse, that’s for sure
We’d all have homes for heroes, provided by the state
Free healthcare at point of need, without having to wait
Refuge for the needy and the poor
Oh, how different, if we had won the war!
Oh, how different, if we had won the war!
We’d want for nowt, and never need for more
One nation under God
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Tuesday 21st January 2025 4:47 pm
Happy Hour Is Over
Happy Hour is over in the New Austerity Inn
And Rachel’s surveying the thinning crowd.
“I thought it would be better than this,”
She says to no one in particular.
The locals call her Rachel the Barmaid
They don’t think she’s qualified
To run the pub on her own.
She’s pinned her certificate to the wall
But done nothing about the flat beer
Or watered down spirits.
Meanwhile, outside...
Saturday 18th January 2025 11:09 am
The Wife of God
The reason that we call the past history
Is that his story was written by men, she said
But we were a veritable pantheon
In the temple of Jerusalem
In Jerusalem, back then
Before Israel and Judah drew the battle lines
Before the waves of Assyrians, Babylonians
You didn’t need a penis to turn water into wine
Before the wife of God was erased by the custodians
Of history
His story
His b...
Wednesday 15th January 2025 7:04 pm
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