Saturday, 15 March 2025

15th March 2025

 



raise a glass

for the late Julius Caesar

The Ides of March


© Rachel Green February 2025


II.V

Even from the height of five tall stories

the driver's gestures are perfectly clear

the deprivation suffered under Tories

hits all the former workers far and near.

In nearby Cannock all the mines are closing,

the nearby Mitchell's Brewery has scaled down;

Interest rates go up but income frozen,

the Government sells England by the pound.

Further up the street two kids are trudging,

pushing Christmas bikes through yellow snow

below, the man calms down, his wife begrudging

heads inside the flats with him in tow.


© Rachel Green February 2025


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