All that's rotten (in this world)

Here's the link to the new video I produced to showcase All That's Rotten (In This World).

The poem is a bit of a rant about all of the rotten, selfish, corrupt and nasty stuff that's going on in the world today, and the criminals, politicians, fat cats and low-life who perpetrate it. You'll either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it - the planet needs help and we need to call out those who are polluting it (most of us) and all the climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, racists and other dangerous people we rub shoulders with. 

 

All that's rotten in this world

fat cats and plutocrats 

industrialists and autocrats 

billionaires and bureaucrats 

always on the take

racists and conspiracists 

terrorists and narcissists 

fascists, white supremacists 

never take a break

web hackers, corporate frackers 

rioters and truth attackers 

hijackers, anti-vaxxers

they don’t feel no shame

sociopathic conscience lackers 

psychopaths and people whackers 

drug abusing gun attackers 

we know who’s to blame

crooked politicians lying 

while there’s people out there dying 

line their pockets, not resigning 

lead a merry dance

sea polluters, oil spillers 

arms dealers, serial killers 

living in their luxury villas 

in the south of France

wall scaling stalkerazzi 

member of the paparazzi 

he’s a telephoto Nazi 

breaking every code 

broker playing kamikaze 

in his shiny Maserati 

texting mates while drinking latte 

menace on the road 

fanatic climate change deniers 

culture gods and false messiahs

reprobates and other liars

excuse me while I hurl

narcotics dealers and their users 

pornographers and cheating boozers 

bullies, thugs and child abusers 

all that’s rotten in this nasty screwed up world 

Steve Wheeler © 4 February, 2021

photo by Steve Wheeler

A shot in the arm

I’m test-driving vaccines. They’ve caused me no harm. 

I’ve had twenty-six now, they’re a shot in the arm. 

If I venture outside, please don’t be surprised 

when I step back inside I’ve been immunised.

I’m protected from viruses prolifically. 

The best one’s the flu jab (which is annually). 

When the ampule is drained and the needle injects 

I’m never concerned about side effects.

There’s a long list of vaccines they’ve given to me 

such as Hepatitis vaccine (both the A and the B).

They’re given in jabs, they don’t come in a tube 

but the Polio vaccine takes the form of a cube.

Thanks to the vaccines I’ve taken in jabs 

Yellow fever can’t touch me, nor typhoid, nor crabs. 

Meningitis won’t harm me and nor will the Dengue. 

Those dangerous viruses won’t take me away 

I had my first vaccine before I could run 

Mumps, Measles, Rubella as a three in one. 

Tetanus and Whooping Cough are also no threat 

and I know that Diphtheria won’t make me sweat. 

Today I was immunised for Covid-19 

(they seem to have skipped the previous 18). 

I will be quite ecstatic if they develop a shot 

to make anti-vaxxers disappear on the spot.

 

Steve Wheeler © 1 February, 2021

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