Socialist Sonnet No. 110

Capitalism, Your Name is Misery

 

Inflation is officially falling

As unemployment rises in its place,

Each is misery, with a different face,

But both aspects are equally galling.

All pay increases will be quickly lost,

And are, at best, a temporary mask.

Yet, the most pertinent question to ask

Is surely, why should living have a cost?

After all, there’s wealth enough to go round,

Created by workers for such a small

Allowance as wages, instead of it all:

So, reasons for radical change abound.

Abolish money and inflation’s gone,

Once the battle for socialism’s won.

 

D. A.