Jonathan's Blog:

Worryingly.

I entered a poetry competition advertised at school with something I cooked up in half an hour, and amazingly they’re mad enough to want to publish it. (OK, so they don’t seem to be too selective and I have a feeling most of their business model is selling to proud parents).

Here it is, in all its dreadful glory:

I thunder as I debate: bankers,
And their bonuses; and bay for blood.
I sing The Red Flag,
Cry out for socialism
But in my heart
I

2 responses.

1. Ben Ward
   January 17th, 2010 at 4.22 pm #

   Ye gods.

2. Sean Whitton
   January 17th, 2010 at 4.30 pm #

   The poem makes a lot of valid points. I really do try to get better on these things: note my spending even less money than I would have to as a poor student. But the elections one really isn’t the same question because if we are looking for the most actions that help people, as opposed to making principles stances, tactical voting makes more sense.

   And this is what I, at least, tend to want at the polls.