Kennedy shouted “We do things not because they are easy but because they are hard”

Then they shot him

Martin Luther King shouted “I have a Dream”

Then they shot him

Bob Dylan shouted poems of Love and War

He politicised a whole generation

Timothy Leary   shouted “Tune in Turn on and Drop out”

California relaxed

Billy Graham shouted “Come on Down”

Causing many to find Christ

Dolly Parton shouted Simple Mountain Music

Rescuing herself from poverty

Ronald Reagan shouted across the Atlantic

 And found the Iron Lady

Eddie Murphy shouted in a lot of movies

And still does

Jerry Springer shouts a lot on television

And makes us cringe

Bart Simpson shouts at the family

And makes us all laugh

George W Bush shouted “Axis of Evil” grinning foolishly at the time

Upsetting most of the World

Sarah Palin shouted “Pro Life”

But not for Alaskan Fauna

Barack Obama shouts quietly using his intellect first and foremost

The World breathes a sigh of relief

Inspired by a painting on display at Dean Clough Gallery Halifax