Tuesday, December 23, 2014

A VERY TALL CHRISTMAS TALE! (our weekly poem)

A VERY TALL CHRISTMAS TALE!

A Guardian correspondent suggested sending all
the so-called ‘wealth-creators’ to a desert island
to see how much wealth they could actually create

T’was Christmas Day in the workhouse,
The usual daily farce; 
The bosses doing all the work,
Whilst staff sat on their arse!  
“How great”, cried all the workers,
That bosses produce the wealth; 
“Not only do they pay us,
We get free National Health”!
“How very true”, said worker Bert,
“It’s good”, said worker Fred;
“That bosses invest all their money, 
Whilst we just lie in bed”.

“I wonder why they do it”? 
In turn retorted Bert; 
“It can’t be just the profit, 
Because that’s not a cert”.  
“It must be out of goodness”,
Said a third worker, Bill;  
“They know us workers are lazy, 
And working makes us ill”. 
So Bert and Fred and others,
And even sceptic Bill; 
Retired for good and let each boss,
Create precisely ‘N_ _’!   

© Richard Layton

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