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Trussed Up
Simon Haines
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
We’re trussed up like a kipper
by this trickle-down wheeze of theirs.
They don’t believe in it themselves,
they know it doesn’t work.
If it worked, of course, there’d be no point
in giving handouts to the rich.
No — we should all be aspirational —
opt to enrich ourselves,
and gain from their trickle-up.
While labouring at this Herculean task
Of becoming rich and powerful
We’ll witness the way those already there
Piss on us, the poor and powerless.
Simon Haines is a language teacher, textbook writer and folk musician. He lives in Suffolk. 21st-century Poetry is edited by Andy Croft, email [email protected].
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