Nihilism

Forced abandonment of the internal forces of democratic continuity,

followed even sooner by the retrospective nihilism of the governing oligarchy.

Creeping Socialism warms the electric blankets of the toiling proletariat,

under every bed hides the thermostat of social conscience

and Kremlin inspired agents of poverty.

Four car loads of rugby supporters found themselves lost

on the highway of commercialism,

wondering even then what planner had taken them

from what they supposed to be a leisurely activity

down the road of ruin towards a cunningly engineered path

of sexual repression and stereo typical simplicity.

In the meantime a truckload of merchant bankers

and stock traders hurtled past,

angrily waving their Chardonnay and aubergines

at the sign post that read social responsibility.

Five miles on, the driver remembered

his last episode of social responsibility,

being his abortive relationship with a mod

for the sole advertisement of non-drip high gloss pain

This hit and run entanglement in a vacuum of conformity,

was doomed by it's lack of equity.

His goal was thrust, hers was trust and so

they left each other to rust

and now the nihilistic aids of irresponsibility

had placed them miles from each other,

even though they inhabited the same insane flat

thereby presenting a facade of respectability

to their cretin minded and likewise equally inhibited friends

of moral insanity


1987