Things we don't write about.

 

We won’t write poems about wanting to Kill David Cameron

(although Gordon Brown did bore me senseless)

Nor do we write poems about the recent cuts to benefits

And the whole way the country is still mismanaged.

 

We won’t write poems about rising crime

And why unemployment is really rising again

Without looking at ourselves and realising

We are in part to blame for this.

 

We won’t write poems about Global Warming

Instead closing our eyes and think I’m alright Jack

When in reality if we don’t change our out-looks

Our children and children’s are really going to cop for it.

 

We won’t write poems about who

Really is in control of our country

Who really pushes that final button

And separates from the rich and the weak.

 

We won’t write poems about how sick we feel

Where another brave young soldier loses his life

And we still can’t sort out our messes at home

Without wanting to ride out somewhere like a cowboy.

 

We won’t write poems about the terrible things

In history which we brush under the carpet

Like the way life really was in Angel Meadows

in Manchester at the turn of the 20^th Century.

 

We won’t write poems about the Miners strike

The Hungerford Massacre, Hillsborough

Or the demolition of the old Fort Ardwick estate

Without missing the full point of you ain’t careful.

 

We won’t write poems about Jack the fucking Ripper

Or what is the truth and what is a barefaced lie

Without looking at ourselves and realising

We are in part to blame for this. 

 

We won’t write poems about the rising deaths

In alcoholism and drink drinking

without thinking bout those who ain’t there

but should still be here stood next to you.

 

We won’t write about drug related crime

And the ones who get left behind

Everytime somebody overdoes

Or does something stupid.

 

I’ve being there,

suffered the bloody book on that last bit.  

 

(NB. This is only a 1st draft but after reading the conversation in the forum 'Things we don't write about' http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/newsgroupview.php?NewsThreadsID=1039&NewsGroupsID=33' - this sparked me off to write this. This poem is for Dave Bradley who started the conversation off)