Thou Shalt Always Muse?

Hi all,

I've begun to write pieces of 'stuff' recently, I like to call it my musings, I'm not labelling it under anything at the moment, but once I've got enough, I might try seeing what I can do with it. This is my first piece I'm banging up on my blog, I hope to do many more both before and after I travel. I was going to give it a silly arty title, but if your of a travelling mindset, I'm sure you'll appreciate the title...

A commentary on my escape





Interesting isn't it? These times of dark recession,
Most folks cant seem to shake their deep dark depression,
Boom or bust, win or lose, passiveness or aggression?
We seem to have found ourselves right here, in a cultural regression.


There are kids on the streets, drinking and fire-lighting,
The weekends drunken 'adults' too, drugged-up, shouting and fighting,
Political 'bigots' are rising, moral conscience is declining,
A 'Racist Peter Kay Lookalike', is the north west remotely inviting?



"Welcome to the Real UK", what is there to be proud of here?
A few literate words from Keats perhaps, maybe a few lines from King Lear?
Some of our kids think the Canadian President is Shakespeare,
But is that really to blame for the menace and fear?


Arrogance and ignorance, the tools of the todays 'yoofs' trade,
I've even heard people 'doubt their kids could use a spade',
Or chisels, saw's or hammers, but then again they've been forbade,
from learning those those things in school, and taking pride in what they've made,


Who's really at fault here though, the parent, teacher, or 'student'?
Maybe it's possibly Catherine Tate, who started the 'Am I Bovvered?' movement?
Perhaps they should have proper role models and teach them to be prudent,
Maths paper from '97 : Education X 3 = kids (with no improvement)



My mate's have just left uni, with their reams of 'impressive degrees',
Not a chance of a job though, so its off to be branded 'Dolies',
Settling into their staple diet, staring into daytime TV's,
Their so called 'god' Jeremy Kyle shouting LOOK AT ME! (without even a please)


See now if you can; the irony in the phrase 'CV',
Those two letters make up the difference, in 'previously' and 'preciously',
Consider how applicable those words are to our lives and family,
When used to describe jobs that provide security and stability.


What's going to happen here, maybe in a year or so?
I'm a pessimist you see, and if it's the worst then I don't want to know,
I'm worried blood will run on the streets, so right now I'm preparing to go,
To the land they call 'down under', and I'm going to take it slow...





Was it worth staying up to write? This is kind of my first jump on writing anything, though my inspirations are up there in the picture, this was inspired by Scroobius Pip in particular, the man who makes poetry and spoken word accessible to dummies like me!


Drop some comments or critiques if you like...

Lee :)