We’re lucky, you know. When you think about it.
We’re standing here tall, and fit. Filled up on our wit.
We don’t die of hunger or diseases like we used to.
We have passed away those through and through.
We don’t starve or face wars anymore.
We’ve shut that door, for sure, in truth it’s pure.
We’ll not quite, or maybe worse, or not as bad. It’s hard to tell.
Whatever is the matter that needs a yell?
We haven’t quite become friends or ended shouting at our foes.
We’re focusing on looking down our nose.
But, on the whole, overall it feels better for most.
Gone with the wind is that fairytale ghost.
Or most live relatively safely in safety, without doodlebugs overhead.
Tucking one into a silk-lined bed.
The point is: we’re lucky.
Stand up and be plucky.
It was worse back in the Dark Ages.
Turn over those bloody news pages.
Famines are on the down, I think.
Prisons are working, in with a clink.
Live Aid isn’t so frequently needed, so Bob Geldof can relax. Almost.
Concluded, resolved and above all: done. Foremost. For most.
No poverty in such a country and certainly none of THAT or THIS or other problems.
All fixed: Moss Side, Merseyside and other places like Harlems.
Don’t believe the news and the views and the social media conspiracy machine.
Sold you a dream, they did it with a sheen.
The leaders shouldn’t be trusted too, even if they did hug a stray kitten, wearing special mittens.
Good old English, Welsh and Scottish. And other new Britons.
Democracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, European disunion, division by incision. Don’t worry. Don’t weep.
Lambs to the slaughter. Run along sheep.
No need to stop and stare.
We’re too busy on our phones to care.
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