Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Socialist Sonnet No. 176

Exploitation

 

Oldham, Rotherham and Telford, all stained

With children’s tears, as if just these places

Are marked, are being marked, by anguished faces

Distressed through exploitation unrestrained;

Only to be exploited once again

As it suits politicians to sound

Like they are standing on moral high ground.

Apologies will be issued and then

Comes obfuscation by legislation.

Law can’t mitigate what’s tacitly assumed,

That consumers determine what’s consumed;

Economics regulate relations.

Rolling headlines, interviews by the score,

Until victims are invisible once more.

 

D. A.

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