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Sunrise On The Slag Heap (Free verse) by Caducus
Success is a haircut at Toni & Guy,
A flute tongue for sales
Is an orchestra of grief
For the common man you robbed.
Martyrs of the cause
Walk with the 'black legs' high headed
So they can buy Christmas
Before it sells them to sharks.
Armour grey skies rinsed their wrath
Godiva like and pure
A blitz of holy water
Fell faster than a David sling
On these cowering Goliaths.
Hire a fifty year old man for minimum wage,
Shake his callused hand
And he will be good to you,
He will sweat blood.
Leave him to machines
And he wont become one
For he is principled
And wont see his grand children
Grow to be the whip cracker
Who broke his back and heart.
Industry
Coventry
Where davy lamp sunrises
Shine on the slag heap
With average Joe
Hocking blood on black mountains,
All for a dream he'll give his son
Found on a different path
He turned from coal to gold.
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