Nothing more
Dump the bodies on Eton’s playing fields,
Those with the power are so-completely unreal.
Pretending to a competence they just do not have
Asking us to believe in them, to rally round the flag.
It’s the poor, who, as ever, have to pay the price
The hypocrisy of the left is just to pretend to care,
The hypocrisy of the right is just never to be there:
To offer care to the living, or respect to the dead.
We all have a duty to be kinder, everyday,
To all sorts of people, in all sorts of ways,
To listen to the demented, to feed the poor,
Just to realise the grandeur of being alive
To know in your heart, there is nothing more.
John Marks
Sun 14th Jun 2020 20:36
Thank you Cathy, Jennifer, Po, Mark, Tom and Abdul. I so much want to believe that HMG has managed this plague well, but I just don't.
“If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere.” Seamus Heaney