I open my front door, straight into climate change and the dull M1 roar – all hours.

I go to the school as a teacher, only to drain creativity and imagination out of the kids,

With constant assessment and onlyone focus on grades.

GCSE’s are only league tables’ kids. 

 

I pass by people, finger fucking their apps and friends with smart phone dementia.

Press ‘like’ , press ‘share’ , tweet a sandwich just eaten - who fucking cares?

 

I pass by charity shops swelling in ranks, superstores bullying shops around, poundland bargain empires made by poor Chinese kids and a Costa or a Greggs.

What has happened to the high street?

 

I try to smile through the day, but then the news just sticks in the boot and kicks that all away.

TERROR!  GLOOM!  MADNESS! STRIFE!

 

I hide in my bed on a day off, as 70mph storms batter the windows. 

Where is the frost and snow of so long ago?

 

I turn off the googlebox that I pay ridiculous tariffs for,

Blank the screen of fake plastic people, pretend celebrities and sociopath wannabe’s.

I don’t judge the dancers so strictly as some, or give a flying fuck about factor – X,

Nor watch the latest sci-fi, crime, hospital drama, all so dead in story but full of FX.

 

It seems that everything is going so fast,

Yet wilting away – so sad.

 

Sirens sound outside again – always an ambulance screaming by, or police helicopter above,

Cutting its propellers through the perpetual rain.

 

The birds don’t visit the table, where I have so lovingly placed their food,

Perhaps they have all migrated or are hiding undercover from the earth’s angry roar!

 

I pull hard on my ecig - the new nicotine high, which is only prolonging addiction.

How many times have I spied, the throngs of people in pubs, lip sucking and punctured with ecig frowns and chesty coughs?

 

Black Friday aisles already covered in rust, while our leaders prepare to bomb Syria, because WE MUST!

I wait for aeons to see the NHS and buy my goods online.

 

Someone once told me, that the future, would be bright. 

What a load of shite!