Why can’t the poor have the decency
to go around in bare feet?
Where’s the pride that allows them
to fall behind on video recorders?
Such ostentation’s indiscreet
when we can hardly afford as
much. They all smoke, of course,
and fiddle while the nation burns.
(Electric meters usually, and gas.)
And note, most have central heating.
Moonlighting’s too romantic a word
for what’s tantamount to cheating.
It’s a question of priorities, I suppose,
give them money and it goes on booze.
Why can’t the poor be seen to be poor?
Then we could praise the Lord, and give them shoes.