Poetry

Monday, 27 May 2024

Millfield Enterprise English summer schools

 You know Millfield Enterprises will use you

Recycle you like pieces of trash

For them you're the shit

On the bottom of their shoes

But without you, they'd never make cash


Oh they sell an English summer programme

Like English is the prize, it's the goal

Of every parent and child

Who's ever dreamt wild

That for them the streets are paved with gold


Oh yes Millfield promises you everything

Oh yes they scoop the cream of the crop

For they have no scruples, they take Yen, Dime or Rubles

As long as the money goes to the top


Yes you've got to be in it to win it

And it helps if you come from right stock

No field hermit in their stella-biography

It's not geography or democracy but cock


Oh breed from the right family won't you?

Eugenics and racism here

Of course if you're black then they have your back

As long as you're not black and queer


Look, just listen they're a charity

Look how needy they are

With their seven tennis courts

With their car parks full of plush cars


But no the poor sods who work there

Are not the beneficiaries of fame or power

They just screen the nuts, plaster over the cuts

To raise up their Babylonian tower


Yet somewhere their rich bankers are sitting

Eating fine lamb in luxury

Laying on the bed of ill-gotten gains

Invested in their so called charity


If you ever need proof humans are greedy

Look no further than Street

Let your eyes rise up to the hill there

And see what they call making ends meet


These lowly managers are cowards

Because these people worship the dollar

They want nothing more

Than telly and a cure

They'll stand up for you like a jelly

Under pressure it's not that they crack

They just put all the work on you like a donkey

And expect you not to break your back


If you think you have value there believe me

They are about as trustworthy as a bag for life

Made out of the hair brains and screwball

Ideas that cause them to jack knife


If ever they had a personality they leave it at the door

Because they are just one of many

In factory for the Rich kids to get rich more


So let them live in their homesteads

In their stately palace's greed

Let them shave every penny of the salaries

Of their inferior breed

What measure is a man?

To what scale can you measure his worth?

A pound of his flesh on the balances

Is it worth the sound of his mirth?

Sell your soul at what cost?

Sell it and work for the devil

For there's nothing of God

In those unholy sods

He only lives in the poor and dishevelled 

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