As if it could get worse (Cuadrilla)

As if it could get worse.

A country persuaded
that cuts to the poor
due to wrongs of the rich
would warrant a change.

As if it could get worse.

The country, poorer,
wages slashed,
what backlash?
More banker's cheques cashed.

As if it could get worse.

What backlash?
The country's poor
persuaded
for richer or poorer.

As if it could get worse.

Finally, the day,
justice departed,
fracking started,
activists smarted.

As if it could get worse.

Crime and punishment
at the behest
of corporate greed.
A sickening precedent, to heed.

As if it could get worse.

Police,
Government,
Corporations;
Corrupted creed.

As if it could get worse.

The 52%

It's hard to resent
the fifty two percent
  when none of
   the options
    represent
     us or them.

How do you like it (Theresa)?

"Harder, harder!" She cried,
they cried.
"Softer!" We all shouted,
but it's them who decide.
Hard is how she wants it
but how will she hide
the blood?

Faith

Religious or not,
 deep down
  we all yearn
   for something beyond
    the end not the end.
Equal
 in that
  we all want a sequel.

Little do we know

The constant
is the enemy
of understanding.

The world
as we know it,
the universe baffling.

We have it all

We have it all
These days, we do.
Though carbon seeps
And debts accrue.

Walls have fallen
And keep falling, they do.
Though a generation weeps
For a promise untrue.

Glyphosate

Glyphosate
Didn't cause your cancer, mate.
Herbicides aren't great, but then,
Starvation isn't either.

Fashionable of late
To decry the use of chemicals.
Pesticides aren't great, but then,
The EU still won't allow GM.

Vaccinate your children

I'm an angry Northern poet
and do you know why?
It turns out that pigs
actually fucking fly.

If you're in South Carolina.

First case of measles
in twenty years.
Measles
should be so far in the past
the only reason
to use the word
is to rhyme with weasels.

Weasels,
an appropriate description
for the slimy anti-facters
the whiny anti-vaxxxers.

It should be a crime

to not give your child the chance
not to contract that disease
and very possibly die.

That's why.

The vegan class

The arguments are woolly

against sheep in fields,

wool sheared for clothing

and milk churned for cheese.

What grows in Lancashire

if not lambs for the slaughter?

Certainly not avocados,

that's for sure.

Cows pumped with grain

and packed to the rafters

are clearly in need

of rain fed pasture.

But meat has its place

in a world of diversity.

Veganism is born

of a mere lack of adversity.

Trigger warning

How do we move forwards
when dissenters won't heed dissent?
When molehills become mountains
it's tempting, then, to resent
a forced upheaval,
unasked for,
surmounting nothing
particularly evil.

The way we spend our days

It's funny
The way we spend our days,
Some play on easy
And pay minimum wage.

It's funny
This mysterious game we play.
Mistakeable reality,
Unmistakeably real.

All at sea

How are we supposed to know
When that's all that we see?
Refugees all at sea,
And where should they go?

All at sea,
Our ideals, some reality.
We see them drown,
But where would we go?

Power to the people

Power to the people,
The future in their hands.
A fickle chalice runs
Through our fingers like sand.