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A Strange World

Condemned and imprisoned peers
can meet up with friends for lunches
dishonest officials retire with fortunes
and gamblers prosper from hunches.

Incompetent captains of industry
ruin giants and run away with riches
and the brains of our banks are playing golf
and we punters inherit the glitches.

Call centres for our local enquiries
often based in far Bombay
with contact information available
but only if we pay.

We impede our teachers with paper chains
so the dedicated ambassadors leave
we overload our medical folk
and many more families grieve.

We freely vote at election time
and always fall for the lies
so if we foolishly ignore our wounds
we should expect to be infected by flies.


2013 Lord Jeffery Archer allowed out of prison to lunch with friends.
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Gone Away

Oh how we miss those loved ones
who have gone.
We miss them now, we always will
and the memory of them
still lives on.

Some times it's right for the suffering
to leave.
Others are forced early into oblivion by mean Gods
and we who are left here in confusion
can only grieve.

Oh how I miss those loved ones
who have gone.
I miss them now, I always will
and the memory of them
still lives on.

Michael Has Gone

Oh how we miss our friends
who have gone.
We miss them now, we always will
but the memories still live on.

Sometimes it's right for the suffering
to leave
And we who are left here alone in confusion 
can only grieve.

My pal was forced into oblivion by mean gods
but is with me still
he laughs, listens, advises but never complains
about his being ill.

No engine he could not fix, nothing
he couldn't drive
sometimes his driving left me feeling quite
lucky to be alive!

Goodbye my friend, now at last
without pain,
I won't have a fifty year friendship quite
like ours again.

Oh how we miss those friends
who have gone.
We miss them now, we always shall but
the memories will live on.

Funeral - September 2010