Two Poems dis-interred as a result of the High Court trampling on (the same) workers rights

Today the High Court found an excuse to prevent the CWU from taking strike action in spite of the ballot receiving 97% support for their action! 

The two poems below date from October 2017 when the Tory High Court previously ruled against these workers rights.

Magic & High Court ruling

I've just unearthed this (poetic tirade) amongst a pile of rough drafts - I still rage against the same governing party .....

Listening to Archie Shepp 'The Magic of Ju-Ju'

( a response after hearing news of Tory High Court clampdown

on CWU right to strike}

the rage and fury bursts

straight through my anger

diverts my impotent rage

grants a directional force

the struggle continues

as more is stolen

from the poorest

their power and pride

screams out

malcolm evison

12 October 2017

My draft poem’Towards an Autocratic State’ was also a response to the same court ruling:

See: http://malsfactory.blogspot.com/2017/10/towards-autocratic-state-poem-impromptu.html

if only I could be a Tory - verse

just a piece of heartfelt light verse! 

If only I could be a Tory

Wish I was a heartless bastard

life could be so sweet

I'd believe the mainstream papers

and kick beggars in the street

Wish I was a mindless sod

'cos I could be so mean

believing news from the BBC

and worshipping the Queen

Wish I was a selfish git

without a thought or care

I'd join the Tory party

laugh at the poor's despair

Wish I was a heartless sod

knowing nowt but playing God

                                          

                                                      M.E 190318

Towards An Autocratic State - a poem (impromptu response to a High Court ruling)

Towards An Autocratic State

(apropos the ruling against the CWU)

Greater love hath no judge

than to lay down the law

against the working man –

Thou shalt not interfere

with the profiteers

whom we have gifted with

these former assets

of the nation state

Malcolm Evison

12 October 2017

How to become President

How to become President

get what you can

by any means

you can

if at first

you don’t succeed

throw a tantrum

until they yield

to your demand

malcolm evison – 09 November 2016

IN CAMERA - The Dutschke Premise

IN CAMERA

(The Dutschke Premise)

The roving camera

hides its head

but speaks its mind

in camera -

exposing future threats

a kind

of esoteric time

exposure.

The faceless voices

sing their song

of freedom -

ignoring the Amen.

Malcolm Evison

15 January 1971

written as my response to the secret hearings

leading to the expulsion of Rudi Dutschke a student

at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, who had earlier 

survived an assassination attempt in his home country.

Poem originally published 22 January 1971 in 'Tribune'.