The Britain that was
is a carcass, being
picked clean

by those who see
only their just piece.
Their gilded settlement.

No love of shared
past. Careless of a
national future.

Enraged by desire
and fear. Brainless
and isolated, lost

as each argument
is lost. An endless
funeral of projection.

An island made blind
by the earth’s curve,
deafened by technology.

Dumbed by greed and
stupefied by marketing.
Adrift, becalmed, helpless.

image source (it is interesting, you might want to check it out)

Creative’s note: The process of leaving the European Union is destroying the culture and institutions of the United Kingdom. That is actually ‘Brexit’s’ purpose as it is a coup, a part of the Bannon/Putin project to re-shape the world. To deregulate the western world and reverse globalization, including the free movement of people and border-less trade under the guise of political ‘populism’.

Ronnie Smith was born and lived around Glasgow for most of his life. He has traveled widely and, having lived in Bucharest, Romania for six years, he is now based in southwest France. He writes on politics and culture and has published articles in France, the U.K., Romania, and Australia. He has taken to writing poetry recently and it’s become something of a virus infection.

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