Socialist Sonnet No. 107

Orange Protest

 

‘JUST TOP SOIL’ on orange T shirts; two fans

At the Ashes Test cocking a snook

At those match disrupters trying to look

Progressive, but ill-conceived, naïve plans

To be unsporting are easily foiled

And only provoke public annoyance

Rather than helping the cause to advance,

The wheels of reaction are too well oiled.

Protest brings headlines, but not policy,

Action leading to inaction, a schism

Obscuring how it’s capitalism

Frustrates reformers whoever they be.

Neither slogans nor satire can arrange

Circumstances to bring radical change.

 

D. A.