Three Poems On The Sickness Of The Age

THE RECENT RISE OF FASCISM IN BRITAIN

Have you ever noticed that the X Factor auditions

Look just like the Nuremberg rally?

It can’t just be me.

And their boot camp second round of auditions have taken on the appearance

Of the Stalinist show trials of the 1940s.

Everyone reckons that we’re threatened by the rise of fascism,

And I agree, to some degree.

But, to me, the fascists are the ones that run TV

Not the wee fuckwits runnin’ ‘round Burnley

And, if you tolerate this, then

Your children will

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DIGITAL AGE

We live in a digital age,

So now the bus stops have got digital displays

Buses still never come on time,

But now they tell us roughly how late they’ll be

What an age we live in…

What a long way we’ve come.

DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER AND THE LAST DAYS OF ROME

Have you seen this programme?

It’s like a Nazi propaganda film

Set to 1980s rock music.

It’s the vilest thing that’s ever been

Shat onto a television screen.

And it’s really, really entertaining.

We’re drowning in our arrogance and hubris

And that’s why everyone hates us.

Especially us.

By Clayton Blizzard

Age 6