Leon Rosselson | IMGpapers 1976

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So that the wheels So that the wheels may continue So that the wheels may continue to tum, So that the wheels may tum Hours into ashes, days into dust, seasons into stone.

So that the tumers of wheels may die of boredom every day, every day.

Until one day they die of boredom. So that old age pensioners may feast on cardboard sandwiches and flasks of cough modicine.

So that our pensions may be protected against inflation by investment in Cancer Incorporated.

So that the dust may drill.

So that Bernard Levin may lay his moderately well-formed turds on the graveyard pages of The Times.

So that children's heads may be marooned on high-rise traffic islands.

So that we may all join the equal opportunity queues to be tranquillised, barbituised amphetamised, hypnotised, exorcised Lymbolised, expurgaled, tabulated, regulated, stamped and sedated.

So thal the Archbishop of Canterbury may stir the leacup of the soul with the silver spoon of God.

So that money-landers may lend money to pay interest on money borrowed from money-lenders to pay Interest on money borrowed from money-lenders to pay Toney enders.

So that the dust may rise.

So that wo may be free to choose between Tuberculosis intemational and the British Bronchitis Corporation.

So that a regiment of Redcoats from Butlins Annabel's. kills that kills That kills. them - Happy.

may lick our dreams into the proper shape for knock-out competitions.

So that the ears may be filled with the din that the hands produce for the eyes to consume that the heart may wither away.

So that oil-slick executives may dine out at So that allotments may be transformed into concrete memorials for the dead.

So that the poor may dig dust from the earth for the wealthy to bury in vaults.

So that our children may have bank accounts. So that the balance of terror may be maintained. So thai the dust may tall.

So that the meek may inherit the earth because they haven't the strength to refuse So that the lungs may be lined with the dust that So that the blood may be choked with the dust So that the mind may be logged with the dust So that the dust may kill.

So that we may count the ashes until tomorrow, when, with energy, or after tomorrow, with determination, or after tomorrow, with a greal national effort, or some time in the dust to come, when the stone is ripe, our children, or their children, or theirchildren's children.

or their children's children's children may -If the dust - know what It is — it the dust doesn't - lo be - if the dust doesn't get Socialist Chullenge 21 September 1978 Page 15

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