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Sunday, 18 June 2017

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps






Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Get on your bike and look for work
A helping hand not a handout
B.b.but my tower block just burnt down 
"There's no magic money tree"
Yes there is, you've just promised 5 million pounds
Where did that come from?
 if not from the sapling of unlimited currency
"mighty oaks from little acorns grow"
It might as well have been built of wood
You'd have built it out of the cheapest material if you could
Oh you did!
You want us to carry on and know our place
to follow your homespun folklore 
To bow to queen and country
and to respect authority.
We cannot listen to your bull shit anymore
You've even forgotten what it's for
We take to the streets and you call us a mob
the women and children too tired to sob.
On Father's Day you must find a way
to make society fairer
or we'll have to do it fer yer! 

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How To Be Idle
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Freud: The Key Ideas
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Back To Sanity: Healing the Madness of Our Minds
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
I Bought a Mountain
Hovel in the Hills: An Account of the Simple Life
Ring of Bright Water
The Thirty-Nine Steps
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The Seat of the Soul


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