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Beca Del Oeste's avatar

It’s not surprising that people veer towards the doomy articles , it’s not called fear-porn for nothing.

You do right in following your own path.

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Liz Thompson's avatar

Priorities change with time, and with age. As you wither and wonder, and wander and witter.

As skin starts to wrinkle, and eyes fade a bit, and hair has gone grey, and old friends pass away....

You get to a point where nothing can matter, not long lonely years, or daft boring clatter...

No rise in the pension, but the rent's going up, and you suddenly feel you've drunk

all the cup....

Them people in charge, they make all the rules, laying down laws, and think we are fools.

At my time of life, I've got nowt to lose, and I reckon I owe them a bit of abuse.

So I'm packing a bag and buying a ticket, in red and black dungarees dressed like a picket,

I'll be outside Downing Street yelling "Palestine Action, Israeli Genocide" to get a reaction,

And if I get fourteen years locked up in a jail, with any luck bloody Starmer will quail!

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The Stirrer's avatar

Liz…I love your attitude:) A great poem as well…

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Liz Thompson's avatar

Thank you!

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