Robert Wyatt - Alliance
There is a kind of compromise
you are
master of
Your endless gentle nudging
left us
polarised
It's hard to talk to enemies
We are
enemies
What we had in common
makes it
even worse
You're proud of being middle class
(meaning
upper class)
You say you're self sufficient
(but you don't dig
your own coal)
I think that what you're frightened of
more than
anything
is knowing you need workers
more than
they need you
"A herd of independent minds"
Chomsky
got it right
is jogging into battle
waving
old school ties
(from Old Rottenhat, 1985)
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