21 July 2012
They're storming Canary Wharf, Stabbing London's financial heart, Tearing down the Stock Exchange; Let the chaos start. No, it's not the riots With blood and flames and fumes As society's elite cower In their plush panic rooms. The cream of the crop now falling As the workers sink their teeth in, Mobs of labourers and criminals Atoning for the fops' sins. This isn't 1787 Nor is it 1917, No storming of the Bastille, Or shooting Tsars, that's not the scene. No, this is happening in the now, Its not a scene from Hollywood, This ain't The Dark Knight Rises This is far more true. As politicians are corrupted And banks take more than fair share The 99% throw in the towel While the rich 1% play dares. As history turns back around Hitler and Stalin rise again, Communism and Fascism closing in, Radicals back in the game, Marxism courses oversubscribed, Capitalism a dirty name As the Bolshevik wolf howls Alongside The Joker and Bane. The Western world as we know it Is ripping at the seams The FDR's of the thirties Now figments of a dream. Britain held out last time But now we're not so strong, The past rears its ugly head Blurring right and wrong. United currency collapsing, Superpowers falling one by one Like giants under old Jack's axe, Yesteryear is gone. The Middle East is raging Tearing brothers apart; One thousand years of fire and ice, Wars end and then they start. Though Gotham has it's Dark Knight Here, he's nowhere to be seen. This isn't your imagination This is 2013.
Inspired by The Saturday Essay in The Daily Mail. Ooh aren't I intellectual! (Sorry Mr Author Man I don't know your name)
2013 • Opuss № I