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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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Relate

How can I ever relate
when I'm secure, fed and free
to the threatened, hungry and desperate folk
who live across some sea?

I have never suffered pogroms
or seen bayonets in play
or had to decide which of my children
got a little food today.

And what of state rape of women
or Rwandan hands cut free
how does all of this affect
an Englishman like me?

Well, I am not innocent or untainted
for the guilt is just the same
if I prosper in my comfort when
my country invented the game.