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I wrote the following 30 years ago:

19.01.81

As Rumer Godden says:
“Things do not happen by themselves.
“Unless you start them and work at them and go on working at them they will not happen.
“Even thunderbolts are electricity, not God.
“Also you must remember that people do not usually keep their promises. You must not expect it.
Think how difficult [...]

There are echoes in our new ‘benefit’ policies of Germany 1931.
When there was no work but people were ‘forced’ in to labour.
My Father’s generation must be turning in their graves at the futility of fighting World War Two.
The banks have taken our money not the poor and this ‘hedge funding’ blame, for economic mismanagement, onto [...]

1990 A.D.

Ecology for economy
Dispense with Das Kapital
For what we’re about to receive
When the ozone bursts a valve!
Oh blest are the meek
Who shall inherit this Earth
Seas of vast pollutants
Gaseous moribund air
Killing off the planet
With every stock we share.
Relativity for absolutes!
Humanity ‘aint square
We,all, a tiny circle,
Of the immeasurable elsewhere.