The Compliant Citizen
The State likes a compliant citizen
Who doesn’t claim expenses avoids debates doesn’t complain
She’s the lady who plays the lotto
Takes Nana to the Bingo – hides her Muscato!
He’s the man who thinks politicians are crass
And the Ma’am who believes foreign wars keeps us safe
The market git who sells items made of brass
Good old Mr Steve McGrath
The State likes a compliant citizen
Who supports the state enjoys soaps believes the news
He’s the father inattentive to exorbitant energy prices
Wouldn’t ask why council tax’s nearly hit the sky
When turbines were erected next to that field of Rye
The citizen’s car is cheaper than its insurance
She’s terrified of skipping payments of her TV license
As Caesar demands his dues
Who should mind a bit of Top-up fees?
The State likes a compliant citizen
Who doesn’t fall sick shuns benefits likes to work
The Polish plumber who will never get the sack
The industrialist whose sofa is clothed in the union jack
Raging at naming and shaming on the radio station
He’s never been to a single demonstration
Can justify price hikes by Petronas
Unalarmed when a broke state bank awards a fat bonus
The State likes a compliant citizen
Who hates tax havens despises Unions holidays in Spain
He donates money to charity
To outfits where every admin has a deputy
Small portions of donation trickle to destination
Where a corrupt leader is aggrandised as if he were a King
Your Excellency Chief Dr. Professor Reverend Sir
Piles of titles!
Loans from Beijing!
The State likes a compliant citizen
Who fundraises for the poor without asking questions
Why the poor country’s leaders have Swiss accounts?
Why they travel by private jet and are driven in limousines?
When their country’s children are always starved?
Poorly paid doctors in hospitals without drugs?
Attempting to save lives in a death camp
An exorcism within the pits of hell
These Excellences are selfish bastards
The stench emanating from their greed chokes a continent’s progress
Obese and uncultured – surrounded by brutes
Mediocre characters gobbling on fraudulent wealth
What a recipe for wholesale death!
The State likes a compliant citizen
Who’s hostile to otherness, a bandwagonist, kinda bigoted
The rendezvous of closet supremacists is at the beer festival
It’s Saturday morning – we’re off to the carnival!
For tomorrow’s footie – if I may please make a gentle request
Send over the newspapers during the half-time interval!
Compliant citizens are indifferent to corporate bribery
To organisations specialising in global trickery
Preying on a poor man’s resource
Dollar kickbacks without remorse
As lucrative trade in planes and bombs
Offsets dark arts by drones
Luncheons dominated by grey haired misogynists
Fattening middlemen in Saudi Arabia
Backdoor payments to crooks in Algeria
Wealth creation for mighty Britannia.
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