Where Shelley dies again

Louis Kasatkin

Poet from

Wakefield

Fasts for a decent job;

More than 10 days

Have passed,

Yet,

No jobs

Or offers of jobs;

Latest austerity measures

Of the nation:

Starve the poets

And indulge the corrupt

And the crass;

Let them flourish---

Business and

The shameless political class,

The rich eat excessively

And become obscenely fat;

Welcome to the Great Britain,

Hey merry folks,

The modern version

Of the Plato’s Republic;

Where middle-class

And poets

Harbingers of change

Are driven against the wall;

 21-year-old,

Unemployed

Vicky Harrison

Makes 200 applications

But does not get a good job,

Humiliated, frustrated,

Miss Bright dies

After a drug overdose,

And where talented poets

Have to go on

Hunger protest for jobs!

Irony of the situation

Is not entirely lost---

Crooks survive,

The young tend to commit suicide,

Poets of no use,

Well,

A generation is truly lost!