“Nothing that you have not given away will ever really be yours.”   — C.S. Lewis,

a psychic distillation
in the centre 
of this stinking nation denies
the poor’s unfocused struggle
for mere existence
this patient is bound up
in a charlie darwin struggle
in A&E: at 2am, 200 bpm, 219/130
no sweat, he thinks,
the drugs’ll kick in
eventually;
& as the mist lifts,
my heart skips a beat
 and i see:clearly
the frozen children 
of rhe ‘failing’ families
of all the 'undeserving' poor 
the butt of a continual moral panic
in this stinking bare-faced cowardly1¹ hypocrisy of a nation.

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