{"id":1942,"date":"2013-06-29T12:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T09:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2013-06-29T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T09:55:06","slug":"fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fortune<\/strong><\/p>\n

They see our hard earned fortune there,
in marbled city suites,
floating on a silky sail,
the nap of leather seats.<\/p>\n

We had the opportunity,
the pool of genes in code,
a secret reservation for
a public school and Spode.<\/p>\n

We had the opportunity
to own the reason why,
that predicates no chance for those
unable to comply.<\/p>\n

Our felony, was founded on
a life of common good,
to serve as flotsam in the sea
of guns and power and food.<\/p>\n

Consuming guns and power and food,
an irony indeed
that helps the cause of those, who crave
a hope of being freed?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more because they need the work
to feed their flesh and blood;
prevent starvation, declining health
and keep them from the flood.<\/p>\n

But threats to blood will ensure
their easy motivation.
So much to recommend the source
of limitless privation.<\/p>\n

They have much more, by way of help:
attention of the press;
the poets and the playwrights too,
but nothing of redress.<\/p>\n

\fIt\u2019s irony to say \u2019twas fuelled,
on rapid growth by debt
who is to benefit thereby,
who is to win and, yet \u2026<\/p>\n

who is to say what fortune means
if nothing else but luck?
Should we condemn all those who have,
who wouldn\u2019t give a buck<\/p>\n

for those whose sad congenital crime,
their birthright, is to blame,
for them, their lot, their plight, their fight,
but who should feel the shame..?<\/p>\n

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John Anstie<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

UK<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n

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