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[aid] => mick
[title] => Pigeons and Politicians
[time] => 2012-05-27 05:43:39
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[bodytext] => Incredibly, Meritocracy is preached by the ruling classes whilst theres a continuing subjugation of the working masses my social environment has shaped my minds landscape and what a fulfilling experience it is, living on a council estate Family instabilities and no social mobility private education and more social segregation rising levels of wealth inequality and now a era of austerity obsequious politicians at the feet of a corporate and banking elite the media add colour to the abstracts that they find so fetching a neoliberal masterpiece that would leave any sane man wretching A intelligent and urbane journalist in her little bubble of self contentment smiling like a hideous fool as she types up her parochial assesments that exemplify nothing just her own ignorant resentment lovely isnt it scenic and serene suburbia pardon me but I feel im about to perturb yer but what exactly do you know about my life this old industrial heartland is rife with unemployment and crime and believe me those two things correlate, they do align so pause for thought, people like you are too eager to malign this towns never recovered from the iron ladies savagery the hard-working and decent, thats where she callously aimed her canonry It was once a pronounced community now half my mates are on social security We're the future not the flies in your ointment 21 years old, restless and desperate for employment a council estate like this, well just look around its like living on a social dumping ground We're destitute of opportunity we're destitute of guidance and you wonder why there's been a moral subsidence We feel disillusioned and we feel alienated we've been neglected and now we're being castigated Towns like this are being cunningly used to put a whole class in the stocks they've closed down the mine the factories the docks those were the industries round here that gave men jobs now its all asbo boys, asbo girls, drugs and family breakdown and we've all got too much time on our hands in these fractured towns and in the media spotlight we are its selected sample yet another accurate example the tip of a ice-berg they claim as they rationalise inequality again and again there undeserving there depraved there savages that can't be saved there not like you and me we're cultured you see and in this self-serving and rapacious age its just another way to keep denying a man a living wage cunningly placed seeds from the tabloids are sown preying on the dissolutioned and insecure, divides have grown and like pigeons feeding in the cracks of a high streets cobbles ourselves like them, over the crumbs we all squabble just look at the smirks on the plutocrats faces knowing our anger is being chanelled in all the wrong places cylical poverty victim of geography consternation! born out of frustration a minds dilapidation a life of deprivation right now, im off to get inebriated it helps forget about being impecunious later I'll listen to some Billy Bragg a noble working mans confucius [comments] => 1 [counter] => 164 [topic] => 18 [informant] => flavellm [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Holiday Poetry )
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