Paper work
If paper work
proves on paper
that proper work
has provided work
for paper-pushers,
how much paperwork
should proper workers
provide to paper-pushers
to prove they are proper workers
and to provide them with work?
Tim Richards
Nov.27th 2006
Safe memories, safe futures
Remembering colliery disasters
is the new black,
but these official memories
are the safe ones.
We are supposed to remember
the victims, not the criminal capitalists,
the coal-owners who profited
while cutting corners on safety.
Nothing changed there, then.
The apologies are history
and have no bearing on today.
Today’s apologies will be made tomorrow.
Tim Richards
Jan.4th, 2007