
Look after ourselves
Look out for one another
Love humanity
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Look after ourselves
Look out for one another
Love humanity
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

I saw the New World
It did not come from the sky
We built it ourselves
Copyright Francis Barker 2020

Fridays were special,
work was plentiful;
when the job centre found you.
Now just any other day —
yet blacker,
more dastardly,
that Friday feeling
banished forever
to that distant land
called happiness.
Gold fish in a bowl
Endless demented circling
Who’s the first to speak?
Copyright Francis Barker 2020