THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING! (our weekly poem)

THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING!

Windsor Castle staff have threatened to go on strike.

“Prime Minister, there’s awful news,

It’s in The Times today;

The servants of Her Majesty,

Engaged in quite a travesty,

A strike to get more pay”!

“What is the Empire coming to?

The jumped-up working-class;

Will next be wanting decent homes,

With back yards stuffed with garden gnomes,

It really is a farce”.

“Prince Philip thinks we should get tough,

And hang them by the thumbs;

As soon they’ll want the bakery,

And after that the cakery,

When they’re tired of the crumbs”.

“I’d transport them to Botany ,

It is a damn disgrace;

It really is about time that,

The ghastly proletariat,

All knew their lowly place”.

“They should accept the way things are,

In our democracy;

They do the work, we get the wealth,

And this fine system using stealth,

Is known as the Big ‘C’”!

© Richard Layton