The Decency Threshold Poem by Mark Heathcote

Close the campus. Yes, but question your...TRUST
Valuing people "Now" do we stick or bust?
Now that NHS is just another amputee
A listless... shopping channel casualty.

Devolved from central governance
Question; a "Tender" without substance
Contrition is the national agenda!
The malady is a palliative flora.

The disenfranchised, dispossessed.
Who in community care can protest?
Given a home domestic goddess
Wouldn't you be happy with some social solstice?

Let us bring in that domiciliary
A couple of hrs Monday to Friday,
Like meals on wheels let's just hope we're able
To convey the valuing people principle.

Then let us re-institutionalize
From behind their own domestic, blinds
Let's hope we deliver them a time slot
Time enough to dot the "I‘s" and cross the "t's"

And, hey, that's your lot "Conformance"
Until; even this becomes a financial garrotte.
Well, what is the answer then?
For the draconian: optimum performance.

Well hell, let them rot... then..?
Till the shit hits the fan blame the Trust.
That local man... then..?
Then we'll seem to do all we can.

Let these providers compete
Just think out of the box man
Get with the program man.
It's just another big conceit!
Privatization in a can