The drop in centres were dropped,
post offices closed,
banks blanked off,
supermarkets fully automated,
high street stores awaiting budget announcements,
benefits savagely cut,
surgeries under threat,
local bus routes severed.
The community relief specialist paused
near a gap in static traffic
to check a crumpled heap,
spotted a note which ran:
"Voice/retinal recognition terminal
out of action.
To my friends and family,
I love you all."
Ray,
I have only been back in this country for over three months after a continuous absence of 10 years. Your poem is a living testimony to what I have witnessed since my return. It frightens me to think where it is all heading. Do you remember a certain political party several years who called themselves the party that cares? Some hope.
A poem which gives voice to many and thank you for it
Keith
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Fri 9th Nov 2018 19:56
A critique on recent times, with a great play on words.
Clever, biting with an edge of tragedy.
Hannah
Hi David. Glad you spotted this, as it does pull a few strokes! You'll know by now that I am fascinated by motives of people and how ineffectual they may be. Frustration exists in many forms in our society leading to a sense of helplessness, often engendered by great swathes of cuts to what connect us in a community, and the making of decisions based purely on accountancy , leaving a great gap to be filled by volunteers, who have their own agendas. Farnborough feels like an alien town to me, but as you say has some surface glitz. I quite liked Aldershot when it tried to put decent shops in the Gallery, now sadly defunct and the entrance closed.
The terminal I mentioned is now the only contact that offers any solace but has to be activated. This I feel goes to the root of who is accepted and who is rejected. As it has broken down there is no rescue.
Your last mentioned sounds like a Suki Spangles moment! I enjoyed the detail of it you naughty man.
Ray
Thanks for the likes David Jon and Anya.
Glad you liked it Taylor !
Brian, I did go to Rotherham once but it was closed. Thanks for looking in.
Nice to get your comment Kate. I do like the dark side but also we are moving ever closer here to such disassociations.
Ray
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Wed 7th Nov 2018 10:58
Dark and poignant. Well done Ray.
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Tue 6th Nov 2018 19:09
Sounds like a society on the verge of dystopia. Either that or it's Rotherham.
Good one Ray.
Clever Ray..I like this a lot.
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raypool
Sat 10th Nov 2018 15:50
Hi Hannah, welcome. You flatter me and you read my stuff in the right frame of mind, an open one.
Very kind Keith. Your experience consolidates some of my lines, though I may exaggerate for effect sometimes; a comment like yours is gratifying and it is frustrating how we are deprived having been offered more than can be fulfilled.
Ray