Thursday, March 11, 2021

Socialist Sonnet No. 24

 1%

 

The premier and his cabinet gathered

Weekly, sober-suited and applauded,

National Health Service workers they lauded,

“Heroes of the NHS!” they blathered:

Then, soon as they could, showed their true intent.

In gratitude for not being unemployed

Hospital staff should all be overjoyed,

Receiving a rise of a whole one percent.

 

Meanwhile, two members of the family firm,

Hard pressed and harassed multi-millionaires,

Revealed the depths of their tragic affairs,

How the nasty media made them both squirm.

 

Nurses, don’t fall for the clap-trap, resent

That you’re being cast with the wrong one percent.

 

D. A.

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