This is the News

by David Betteridge

Today:

Household Cavalry horses run amok
through London streets,
their riders having lost control.

Most days:

Multitudinous rivers of sewage run amuck
through England's brown unpleasant land,
water companies having declined
to exercise control.

Any day soon:

Civilisation finally goes to fuck,
the world's blood-soaked and shitty governments
having been allowed to exercise too much control.

When?

The People rise.
There is a shift in power,
being civilisation's last and only hope.
Workers' control becomes the norm.