Paint A Vulgar Picture

Because the picture of life for the poorest,
the easiest criminalised, and the least prepared
to defend themselves in any civil society
 will always look ugly. And it reads as
remarkably ugly in this 1971 pen portrait
of the down and outs and ne'er do wells
 of English society who lived in the Spike houses
of the day, and much much worse, as it would now. 

 

Hobson's Choice

What can the poorest do more than watch
as their time is bartered away by the rich?

This will go on until they have no more life to live,
they will have been devalued by how
their lives are shared beyond them knowing.