Monday 31 May 2010

It Was 2am, May 2010


IT WAS 2 am, May 2010
/ SOME WORDS STAY BETTER
LEFT UNWRITTEN, & OTHERS…
after William Wantling, 1973

it’s 2 am, &
the only station coming through
is this talk-radio phone-in

and this guy
from someplace rants
for half-an-hour about how
anti-GM, Animal Rights, &
Vegan anti-globalisation activists
wrecking fast-food outlets are
disrespecting authority, property-rights,
vested interests & free enterprise

about how
Gays & single-sex single-parent families
are destroying traditional social values

and how
asylum-seekers, illegal immigrants
and ethnic minority communities are
undermining our culture and
threatening our survival
as a great nation

I yawn & look away,
think about the beautiful bi-racial
children I see in the Mall & think
how grateful I am that he’s right

and about how,
because of all this,
there’s still so much
hope for the
future…



Published in:-
‘GARBAJ no.15’ (Nov 2003 – UK)
‘THE PENNILESS PRESS no.19’ (UK – June 2004)
‘EARTH LOVE: POETRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT no.12’ (UK – August 2004)
‘THE SUN DOESN’T ALWAYS SHINE: Edit Pete Presford’ (UK – January 2005)
‘OUTLAW no.10: Spring’ (UK – March 2005)
‘MINOTAUR no.43 (Vol.10 no.1)’ (USA – March 2005)
‘EARTH LOVE: POETRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT edit Tracy Patrick’
(UK – September 2006)

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