Mandatory Compliance
Mandatory Compliance
by Steven Taylor
Everyone on television
Even weathermen and women
Football commentators
Comedians, and more serious folk
Naturalists and gardeners
The panels on the dancing shows
The people in the adverts
The winners of the Lottery
All the politicians, presenters
Wears a Poppy in Remembrance
Observes the minute silence. Shush
Gaza is too noisy, disrespectful
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor lives in London. His poems have appeared in a range of publications and he was one of the winners of this year's Culture Matters Bread and Roses Competition.