Amidst a Cuckold Clout

 

     Apparently, our rulers deem it necessary,

our rulers consider the foot down clamp down -

on yet more human expression;-

   a way for ‘we’ to acknowledge their

juvenile primitive understanding, as that,

is what it is.

 

     The spike protrudes again as the

Vile and Disgusting – rich in purse but

deaf blind and poor within realms of

   intellectual compassion,

          ‘dine out’ on the pain of the latest pauper.

 

     You’ll find out, then perhaps

 

          ‘it happened so quickly,

the latest unforeseen circumstantial death;-

   that latest misadventure upon a coroners wealth.’

 

     I wish people knew those patterns of behaviour -

for every new expression, every new trend from artists

kicking back from their determined oppressive

policies,-

        always followed by a careful drip fed pension

of recreation drugs.

 

     Every time a young woman, a young man

demands their selves a life,

   be every time the regime employs a clever tactic

         that people never see,

 

     first the artist, then the trend,

then the drugs, once upon the artist,

and many upon their fans,

 

     ‘if we can control both artist and their fanbase,

          then the latest uprise is ours to keep for laughter,

               behind every theatre company door they never know

                    is written up as politics and law.’

 

   Our bio-form and feelings ask upon us sex,

     now that too a cuckold as dictatorship sublimely muscles out a flex.

 

          When freedom from such tyranny,

               when,

                      as the powers snidely have us fight each other??

 

 

Michael J Waite 3rd March 2023