In Verse Advice Poem by Douglas Scotney

In verse advice



In the depression and the anti-fascist war

the poor and the weak grew aware of what bad

lay in losing what little democracy they had,

and started to think about getting more.



The majority were bought off



by ones-who-own-and-run,

who then set about working out how best

to get back, with interest,

the money that they had done.



They freed money up



to go where it made more cents;

and those who'd sacrificed thought for money,

sat dumb, idle, weakened and grew poor,

again controlled by those with more.