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

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Cancel culture

Feed the vulture, cancel culture, 

Stitch up surgeons with their sutures 

Stone the prophets, steal their futures 

Prevent clairvoyants telling fortunes 

Cancel agents and their clients 

Halt the scientists, stop the science 

Erase all emblems of defiance 

Tear down works of literary giants 

Silence sculptors and musicians 

Artists, painters and magicians 

Cancel art that speaks against you 

Blot out history that offends you 

Limit the freedom of the press 

Shut down the media, more or less 

Cancel language, cancel talking 

Stop us thinking, running, walking 

Cancel culture, flex the strong arm 

Cancel all that triggers alarms 

Call them all out, name and shame them 

Cancel culture, then pass the blame on 

Steve Wheeler © 17 January, 2021

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Goodbye Mr Narcissist

Step down, and move away from your pedestal / the pain you’ve inflicted has been incredible / the damage is more than collateral / it’s astronomical / your truth has been economical / your ‘alternative facts’ would’ve been comical / if your lies and indecision weren’t so moronic and unacceptable / all you’ve ever done and said has been clinically cynical / your fake news was self-seeking and elliptical / you’ve done your best in your quest to be dishonest and pretensional / unteachable / and unreachable / and it’s typical / and predictable / that you would be so consistently one-dimensional // 

What we all really think of you is unprintable / and unrepeatable // you thought you were unbeatable / in your own mind, you were undefeatable / you thought you were invincible / and indestructible / unbelievably, you still think you’re unsinkable / what goes around comes around and it’s cyclical / it’s unthinkable / your self-delusion is inexplicable / it’s stubborn and egotistical / it’s malignantly narcissistical / and that kind of sickness is untreatable // 

At times like this it’s conventional / to mention the unmentionable / let me tell you, you were never presidential / your default position was unconscionable / if someone disagreed with you, it was like a red rag to a bull / your social media was spitefully unsociable / your tweets and posts were risible / and your deceit was always visible / you should have been impeachable / but your umbrella was party-political / unbreachable / formed by your buddies in a corrupt cabal / it was despicable / unethical / and pitiful / but at best your percentage of protection was only marginal // 

Whenever you were met by opposition all / your anger and your rage was considerable / your face was often unsmiling and miserable / for you the mug was always half empty, never half full / you were never very happy with the feasible / deliberately playing the unreasonable / you were always playing up to your white supremacy pals / it was base relational / and you’re still insatiable / you crave it all / the power and glory of it all / and the adoration, all / from the electoral / crowds, but through it all / you’ve been mentally unstable / and pathologically unable / to be amicable / and charitable // 

Your behaviour is despicable / and reprehensible / your decency is invisible / your conscience is minimal / your morality is switchable / your charity is fictional / and you’re a shameless individual / even your taste in decor is kitsch and all / you say is a lie – you ain’t rich at all / and what you suffer from ain’t fixable / so I predict your future will be miserable / because you’re basically an imbecile / you’re a serial criminal / your situation ain’t winnable / so crawl back under your rock and be invisible / go grab ‘em by the pussies and swallow your pride along with your cholesterol // 

 
Steve Wheeler © 26 December, 2020 

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Agitpróp

Propaganda for the mind 

Ideology between the lines 

Dubious rhetoric and fiction 

Master of the tribal friction 

Spin doctors weaved his lies 

Ignored the many plaintive cries

Send it out to fool the masses

Forced division of the classes 

Agitation of the crowd

Whispering quietly, shouting loud

Workers of the world unite

False consciousness will blind the sight

The politics of fear and hate

Stopped by the people's mandate

Fallen now, to rise no more

Crushed in pieces on the floor

Steve Wheeler © 7 November, 2020

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Propaganda

Image from Pixabay

If a poem falls in my notebook 

but no-one ever reads it, 

does it exist? 

When presidents spin their webs 

and turn a lie into ‘the truth’ 

should we resist? 

When everything goes pear shaped

and your plans are laid in ruins,

should you persist? 

If suddenly you disappeared 

from the face of this planet, 

would you be missed? 

Don’t fall hook, line and sinker 

for the vapid propaganda; 

of the vain election pledges 

that promise a bonanza 

of wealth and health and happiness 

contained in memoranda. 

(The answer is a big fat yes 

to each and every stanza). 

Steve Wheeler © 3 November, 2020

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