Brystopia

I was prompted to write this for 'Europa Picnic' - a stage show organised by Hope London at Big Burns Supper in Dumfries to coincide with the Brexit on 31st Jan 2020

We're all going to choke! You 'Brexiteer' Brits,

You're making me bowk, your United Kingdom's the pits!

Free from EU rule, now you're going to burn coal,

What's next, close all the schools give young graduates the dole?

It's your dirty work being done, the ruling effete,

Would you send your own kids up the lum, when there's chimney's to sweep?

I'd have you in jail! Charged, just for being obtuse,

On a slow boat we sail into another decade of abuse!

It's the same sorry story, we're clean out of luck,

why would you vote Tory? It's no' adding up.....

You'll wish you weren't born when you're put to the wall,

I pity you really....you've nae brains got nae brawn!

Don't maudle, don't mither though we're nailed to the floor,

don't heed that wee Oliver, don't you dare ask for more!

By shovel, by trick, you've dug us a hole and

it's working, they're dying while you save from paying them dole!

We could end this catastrophe, if you'd forget fossil-fuels,

Auld Dumfries Knitwear factories, we were dyed-in-the-wool!

John Donne did once say that no man is an Island

and it's true to this day, look at post-colonial Ireland !

Hard Borders? It's apartheid! Insidious (lack of) education and a

New World Order, led clowns down to our Polling Station 's

Working class voted Tory to curb immigration,

Flew off, stoated round pubs like pure mugs on their summer vacations!

Why must we regress? It just seems so daft,

to wear rose-tinted specs and look to the past!

The Butcher's Apron flies high shouts 'Make Britain great Again'

The people on the street greeting cos we just want to Bremain!

Rutger Bregman kens best! He's our Eurotopian brother,

15 hour weeks? Yes,success, with him at the rudder!

A real emissary! A harbinger of truth!

So...please are you listening, dear Boris and Ruth?!

You'll no have me fooled

though you might kill me off

But my kids won't be ruled

By you Tory toffs.....

Reviews

[Ken e Bujold]

I love this poem Davey. It rings with the same rage I share all too often, especially when my working-class roots are left completely flummoxed by the ways in which the underclass so easily votes in utter disregard for their own interests. While I am not against capitalism, I've done well for myself, I am still at heart and vote, one of my father's sons.

Ken e

[Davey Payne]

Hi Ken, many thanks for taking the time to read this and to feedback so kindly. I myself am not completely against Capitalism and I am somewhat convinced that a model of Social Capitalism is achievable. I'm all for a well-being economy. One where the division of labour is designed with psychological and financial as well as physical safety is of paramount concern to those who hold the capital.

[Katrina Mckeown]

Being a fellow Scott, I truly enjoyed reading this very apt in my opinion poem you left no stone unturned or corner for those Tory voting idiots to hide in or under!

[Davey Payne]

Thanks very much Katrina, great to hear this kind of feedback from a fellow Scot and Tory hater. Thank you!