The Sake of Now
This woman loves her children
As she couriers them to class
Protecting them from strangers
But using up our past
Her now is all that matters
She’s earned her SUV
Inflated by her trappings
An image devotee
With scalpel sculpted features
She’s that modern sacred cow
Who spends her children’s’ future
For the sake of now
His children want for nothing
He feels no sense of guilt
At borrowing from descendants
Mortgaged to the hilt
He lives a very sponsored life
His own uncharitable trust
Paying just the discount cost
And not the price to us
With his branded landfill lifestyle
He’s a man who’s made a vow
To spend his children’s future
For the sake of now
Addicted to a lifestyle
Where things define their worth
Their squanderous consumption
Is costing us the earth
They’re suicidal spenders
Who’ll fight for their belief
That selfish is a virtue
And neither is a thief –
As they steal their children’s future
For the sake of now
Polio Patrons
Only vaccinate the children you want to keep. So much deliberate anti-vax (pro-disease) misinformation killing children, parents and grandparents…
Stage direction: scream, sob, moan – and then…
A child, she burns in viral fire
Ignited by their ignorance
Her nerves are now become barbed wire
Movements fail as neurones die
Live bodies fed to a funeral pyre
Iron lungs await in darkened rooms
Wheezing. Breaths. A. Coffin life.
Condemned to live in techno tombs
Calipeople limp through pain-filled lives
Conspiracy conferred those dark heirlooms
Failing flesh fibres at their death
Do not go gentle as they die
They scream and scream with their last breath
As post-polio wields its deadly scythe
No vax the evil shibboleth
Un-vaccination lie supply
Pro-polio patrons post their memes
Evidential fact falsify
Ignore the sound of children’s screams
Deliberate duplicity to deny
The miracles that are vaccines
Measle Makers
Scream, sob, moan…
A baby burns as human wood
Ignited by their ignorance
Nothing soothes, and nothing could
Pustules punish her lack of vax
Their weasel words are all falsehood
Infected by belief in lies
Measle fever swells her mind
There’s no sight in her sore eyes
Deaf descends to quiet her world
Peace at last before she dies
Un-vaccination lie supply
Measle makers post their memes
Evidential fact falsify
Ignore the sound of children’s screams
Deliberate duplicity to deny
The miracles that are vaccines