The Yosemite Sam of Nation States

The Yosemite Sam of Nation States

 

Another mass shooting on strictly come dancing?

I pick up my spectacles.

“Ooh you’re posh, we call them glasses”.

Well raise them then to dystopia

Gaza first, now the Lebanon

The Yosemite Sam of Nation States

is going off on one again.

and apart from the odd ‘virtue signalling’ tweet

I continue with my mundanity thinking about my morality.

“I’m going to die” (someday)

as my timeline is flooded with pictures of those who have.

We cannot imagine such terrors.

but they’re getting closer.

We can’t remain cossetted and protected forever.

Every other news story a distraction from the reality

that there is a made-up biblical country out there

that will take us all down to save its own myth and legend.      

Christmas is looming on the horizon again,

and only Capitalists will gain.   

You cannot help but feel humanity’s pain

as you pull your tartan trolley round Poundland.