‘Social Being Determines Consciousness’


by W. McM. Cunningham

Jubilee Year nineteen thirty-five

a king-emperor and consort

to progress through our community.

Drawn in a gilded coach

streets lined with stunted,

underweight children.

No palace dwellers they;

unsanitary, ill-lit, vermin-ridden

hovels their dwelling,

royal cattle and horses fare better.

Waving flags on cue

we are rewarded

with toffees in a souvenir box.

Jobless fathers who fought

for king and country

are rewarded with dole queues.

With adulthood comes knowledge,

fitness graded on

lack of childhood protein.

Chains are thrown off.

Bitterness; anger remain.

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