Wednesday, 9 July 2025

9th July 2025



restless dogs

want outside at 3AM

cool air


© Rachel Green July 2025


White Right-wing men now rue the fateful day

they earnestly believe was better than before

the advent of the right to vote and equal pay;

when slavery became abhorrent and when war

was fought upon such bloody fields that men

would die for nothing more than ten more yards

of clay and muck defended unto death and then

retaken by the other side like cards

upon a table in a Big Boy's club

where class was deemed a birth right and no upstart dick

might from some clever whim a fortune rub

and show his morning face and take the Mick.

  When Men were Men in powdered wigs and stockinged legs

  made all the rules and pulled each other's pegs.


© Rachel Green July 2025


 

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