The Ballad of It or Less and Less

(Derived from ‘Eric, or Little by Little’, a descent into moral turpitude)

It
Sponsors William’s invasion
For cut of tax collection
Jumpstarts burrowing
By fanatics
Into the fabrics
Of national cultures
Activates borrowing
From foreign vultures
Harrowing antic
Invention of elastic
Compound interest
Under alias of trust
Credit becomes
Contrivance of debt
Universal threat
Prisons for debtors
Rewards for bettors
But monarchical assertion
Decrees expulsion
Blessed intermission.
Careless

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It
Pays Traitor-Protector
Restores tax-collector
To gain readmission
Reversion to subversion
Creates Bank of England
And National Debt
In a turn of the hand
Government borrows
Government owes
What a racket!
Politicians cohabit
Freemasons, Rotary Club
City’s global hub
World’s septic tank
Rebels walk the plank
Money lenders
Money benders
Lovely money
Mostly funny
But they resolved
After the Battle of the Boyne
To make our coin
Progressively
Worthless

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Its
Foreign policy
Gunboat-diplomacy
Balance of power
Others cower
Piracy by battleship
Is statesmanship
British Empire-building
Billions yielding
Sanction wars
To enforce addiction
Victims of opium
Succumb to opprobrium
Targets of abuse
Synchronized to misuse
Through exploitation.
Reckless

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Its
Ingenious mythologies
Opposing ideologies
Serve same purpose
To ambush us
To fool us
Institutes fake schism
Communism versus capitalism
Goal of Collectivism
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Imposed by commissariat
Down with the Bushwazee!
Kill millions by decree
Workers of the world unite!
Ancient heritage dynamite!
Soulless

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Its
Economy
The people serve the state
Or they can emigrate
Stock flotation
Separates profit from production
Inflation, deflation
Stock market scramble
Casino gamble
A game of chance?
No, serious finance
Programmed to crash
At will
Recalled mortgage
Organized carnage
Millions of jobless
Suicides, homeless
Arrange a war
By the back door
But revolution from below
National Socialism steals the show
Totally new concept
An unlikely prospect
Representative government
No unemployment
The state serves the people
They’re not just sheeple
Power humanized
Nation unified
Who’d a thunk it?
Can’t debunk it
Cannot be
Must not be
Stamp it out
Bomb it out
System reinstated
Usury inflated.
Thank goodness

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Its
Post-war solution
Mind pollution
Pathetic legacy
Parliamentary democracy
Chatroom legislators
Clubman’s debaters
Universal benignity
Human dignity
Rights of man
And other flimflam
Rewrite history
It’s now a mystery
Libel critics
With false analytics
Impose thought controls
Without loopholes
Speech is not free
When (alleged) hate’s
At stake.
Conscienceless

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Its
Commerce
A curious notion
Of peddling by promotion
Advertise to tantalize
Giant tractor-trailers
Bound for retailers
Carry plastic pre-landfill
From hither to yon
(You know the drill:
Bless the bed that I lie on
Glory to God for all Things)
Stuff already sated
Consumers with tumors
Alleged free trade
A Band-Aid
Self-regulating (black) markets
Enact prohibition
To peddle moonshine
Organized crime
In its prime
Web of central banks
Funds wars, buys tanks
Debt rises, Credit crunch
Foreclosure ultimate punch
Ambition to hold
All the world’s gold.
Rapaciousness

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Its
Art is
Whatever it calls art
Poetry is
Whatever it calls poetry
Music is
Whatever it calls music
Deejays, rappers, slam poetry, air guitar
Society exchanged for
Social networks
Facebookers, Twitterers, influencers
Skill is
Needless

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Its
Sport
Base-jumping
Bungee-jumping
Mountainside thumping
(Accidentally)
Wingsuit, jetpack flying
Death defying
Underwater rugby, hockey
Jedi Force-warriors fantasy
Virtual football
Fans, fanatics, hooligans
Computer games.
Headless

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Its
Feelings artificial
Emoticons replace Emotions
Machine-accessible relations
Likes replace perception
Avatars replace Friends
Heartless

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Its
Education
Political Correctness
Fosters fecklessness
Infests academia
Like septicemia
A permanent backdrop
Of online funded agitprop
Hyped hogwash
Base mouthwash
Language debased, misused
Vocabularies shrunk
Chatting bunk
Superlatives proliferate
Lightweights misstate
All is ‘stunning’, all ‘sadly’ die
Inapt uniformity
Despicable conformity
Matches pea-brain users
Generations of losers
Roget’s Thesaurus
May be a Stegosaurus
Discernment spurned
Degrees unearned
Blunted acumen
Generates subhuman.
Witless

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Its
Captive media
Truth murdering
Factories
Character assassinating
Manufactories
Spew propaganda
Fake news, fabrication
Deceit, distortion,
Brussels sprouts
EU Pigs’ snouts
Journalists pander
Slander replaces candor
Information is
Useless

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Its
Food additives
GMO-impregnated
Transfected, transgendered folk
Ingest transgenic tomatoes
Long-life preserved
Killed with E-Numbers
Fosters veganism
By schematism
Supplements required
To stop being overtired
Tofu replaces all
It’s a judgement call
Consumers prefer
Convenience to cooking
Zapping by microwave
Saves time
For what?
Consuming.
Tasteless

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Its
Digital revolution
Not an evolution
Smart meters
Catch fire
Smart phones
Radiate cancer
Internet of things
Eager compliance
Connects all-consuming
Cretins to their appliance
All is linked
Privacy extinct
Cloud control
Steals your soul
Spy our every gesture
No need for conjecture
Interferes
With our hopes and fears
At sea via 5G
Ruthless

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Its
Contagion strikes
Implicit mugging
Muggins gets vaccinated
Forever contaminated
Masks isolate and segregate
Masked toddlers
Life-impaired waddlers
Remote work, remote play
Life via display
Remote relations
Virtuality is reality
Newsreader intones
Various unknowns
A thin gruel seeps
Out of his behind, his mind
It could have been his mouth
We’re all going south
Call up the numbers folk,
The zombie stats
Call up Dr. Katz
Let’s go for broke
One hundred thousand dead
It’s only whitebread
If 28 days since positive
Covid is causative
(or non-positive negative,
asymptomatic, aquatic)
As you please
Car crash, heart disease
No, it’s Covid
You’re outvoted
If ‘R’ number’s up
Your number’s up
So long as you test,
It’s the best
Do you hear the voice
Says you have a choice
Between bromide
And genocide?
Lockdown
Stay home, protect lives
Antecedents die alone
None allowed in danger zone
Meeting others, friends or family
Invites calamity
Billions of borrowed cash
To give to pharma
I mean to save lives
Don’t vacillate,
Vaccinate
For a lifetime’s laming properties
To enslave
As prophesied
First there was a virus
To inspire us
Then there was a cure
But it was a lure
It’s insanity
A crime against humanity.
Remorseless

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It’s
Where debt
Ends in the Great Reset
Every wretched nerd
Free as a bird
In a net
Possessions traded
For basic wage
Cashless, chipped
No commitments
But chip reports fault
Forgot to pass the salt
Guilty of error
Starved into terror
Access disconnected
Permanently rejected
Power out
Bitcoins up the spout
No wastewater treatment
Up shit creek
Outlook bleak
Tents washed away
Doomsday
Too late
At any rate
To bemoan
Our collective fate
Homeless
Helpless
Hopeless
A last rave
Before the grave
Now only best
To get drunk like all the rest
Life’s pretty
Pointless
Pointless?
Not for It
Not a bit
It’s holy writ.

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In the beginning was the Word.
Wrong.
In the beginning was the Lie.

-By Gerard