BUST
heard the good goog news
that they cut
the arts in
th-re-will-always
be an-England
big cities did it
because they are bankrupt now
and who wants
poems and plays about
terminal
austerity
why should the State
or anyone subsidise
anything so irrelevant
trivial, spurious
as performance pièces
exposing this very hypocrisy
when money
is desperately needed
for jets and bombs
preserving the hegemony,
no time for idle hands,
wicked pens and
wasting
all that is precious on
such self-indulgent luxury
nothing there worth
watching, listening to, reading
this is our absolute truth
to you
there is no longer space
or capacity
they are
no longer part of
our identity
do not fit in
our economy
we
are the final arbiters
we decide the colours, tastes,
feelings, shapes
this
the realisation of our
special, almost sacred mission
to tell our culture like it is
close down all else for all
poems 2 die for 