Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Socialist Sonnet No. 170

Budget Event Horizon

 

The vast black hole into which the nation’s

Wealth is being irresistibly drawn

Is unstable capitalism, grown

Through ever expanding depredations

Until it has consumed the entire world.

The gravity of its profit hunger

Is such, well-meaning policies no longer

Escape oblivion. Intentions hurled

Into its maw are destined to never

Be seen again. The exchequer must yield,

For the red box proves a pathetic shield:

Fiscal escape is a doomed endeavour.

All promises the chancellor made are hushed,

Fond hopes for change relentlessly crushed.

 

D. A.

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