Free Dominican
Franco Ghanaian Haribo state
Forge, Forgot Ten, eleven, twelve
Indignance for victory
Vicars voweling fouls at vocal clubs
And bowling greens wear spreads of tea leaves
Predict Octopus edicts and Suliman tribes Derisive of Goalies'
Shadows
Linking shallows in epic waterways of galois glories
Versai versisimilitudes, look in longitudes
Of space nuns distracted tractor drivers collide
Headlong into herds
Whose echoes echo up Ravines
And look this green and pleasant land is ours
But what but how
What boundaries now
Dictate
The freedom of the classes?
The lower drink
And stink in pubs with grubs, and play their records loud in the
Street
And party
In their private public spaces
That suit their boundaries when it favours
Same as the gentlemen farmers
Who protect their borders with shot guns
And Retrievers, revolvers
Sheep dog scotties
Yet for one land is green and rolling
For the other it is grey and folding
All enveloping like
And envelope around them
In the concertina town
Whose
accordion breathing, heaving heavy concrete sounds
Play double in the street
Then in their beds
As they try to sleep
The farmer with his sheep and cows
Makes nightly vows in dreams
To Noah
Who will save them all
On his ark
Yet he drives them to slaughter one and all
The next morn
Showing no quarter
Just in dreams
as green and pleasant as the land he owns
As perfect down to the bone
Its marrow and its fat
Is sucked
Yet replenishes after all that
Every Springtime season
After he has sprayed it with pesticides
or coated with his pledge
He gives it rest in fallow shallow
Hedge
Where he bets his future years
In weight and balances
Pounds and ounces
And giving and receiving
Goes to town his own
The animals are fed
And another day will
dawn
In the Cow shed
Another calf is born
As in the closed quarters of the sacred cloistered halls
Of the town the mighty ministrels
Sing of bread and circuses
Like they were tangible items
For sale in Sainsbury's
But no not the retro fitted garbage these days
Blame your uncle for your parents
Don't care
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