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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Socialist Sonnet No. 159

Austerity Circles

 

The last time a party fell from office,

It found itself very quickly being blamed,

As the new government loudly declaimed

Details of the national debt and the price

Of a necessary austerity;

So obvious, everyone must surely see

How the previous crew incompetently

Managed to crash the economy.

Now though, with new hands on the fiscal reins,

The Chancellor sombrely explains

A policy of tightened purse strings, pain

That might look like austerity again.

Only, it’s not, in any shape or sense,

Rather, it is the return of prudence.

 

D. A.

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