Myths And Lies Of The Twentieth Century

The Blitz spirit was a myth
invented by the British press
during World War Two
to protect the wealthy
by encouraging the poor
to thrift and virtue
as what little the poor had
shrank in front of them.

The phrase is resurrected
when ever the ruling classes
need to remind the worthy poor
how much their worthiness
comes from their making
they relatively little they have
stretch to it's ultimate
because of the latest crisis.

It is the lie that has become
ever more absolute as the years
particularly when detached
from it's original context.