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A SOCIALIST
By P B Taylor
I
A soc supports an economic and political system
Aim more equal distribution of property and wealth
Public government ownership of means of production
Banking and transport historically through stealth
II
A soc has no longer some unorthodox political practice
Is the original idea exhausted, destroyed ended?
Needy don’t get as the twists, that gradual defined list
Guarding people telegraphing news so politically amended
III
Advocacy is knowing the answer to the posed question
Education allows the people certain responsibility
Intellect never really accepted by an electorate, or socialism
To let an ignominious Wilson commit a political fatality
IV
Of interest the racialists are often hardcore socs
The image then goes for the dedicated socs are not
A particularly resentful breed recognised as nose drops
Socs assume guard for an asinine public in health as they rot
Amersham May 1973
Phillip Taylor MBE was born in Amersham and educated at London University and the Inns of Court School of Law. His working life was spent, firstly at the BBC in London, in the Ministry of Defence and the Army, and then as a barrister at law and mediator at Lincoln’s Inn after he was called to the Bar.
He was Chairman of the Society of Civil Service Authors Poetry Workshop from 1982 to 1986 and contributed to their annual anthology FOCUS. His poems and short stories have appeared in journals, magazines and newsletters and some have been broadcast by the BBC. He has produced several poetry collections since 1972.
The Poetry Workshop was founded by Bill Barnes in 1970. It was a part of the Society of Civil Service Authors (founded in 1935) which now known as the Society of Civil and Public Service Writers.
A SOCIALIST
By P B Taylor
I
A soc supports an economic and political system
Aim more equal distribution of property and wealth
Public government ownership of means of production
Banking and transport historically through stealth
II
A soc has no longer some unorthodox political practice
Is the original idea exhausted, destroyed ended?
Needy don’t get as the twists, that gradual defined list
Guarding people telegraphing news so politically amended
III
Advocacy is knowing the answer to the posed question
Education allows the people certain responsibility
Intellect never really accepted by an electorate, or socialism
To let an ignominious Wilson commit a political fatality
IV
Of interest the racialists are often hardcore socs
The image then goes for the dedicated socs are not
A particularly resentful breed recognised as nose drops
Socs assume guard for an asinine public in health as they rot
Amersham May 1973
Phillip Taylor MBE was born in Amersham and educated at London University and the Inns of Court School of Law. His working life was spent, firstly at the BBC in London, in the Ministry of Defence and the Army, and then as a barrister at law and mediator at Lincoln’s Inn after he was called to the Bar.
He was Chairman of the Society of Civil Service Authors Poetry Workshop from 1982 to 1986 and contributed to their annual anthology FOCUS. His poems and short stories have appeared in journals, magazines and newsletters and some have been broadcast by the BBC. He has produced several poetry collections since 1972.
The Poetry Workshop was founded by Bill Barnes in 1970. It was a part of the Society of Civil Service Authors (founded in 1935) which now known as the Society of Civil and Public Service Writers.
