Can one believe the artless truth <br />how much love costs with illicit youth? <br />Cast felons must pay as pay they did <br />legitimate choice once made well hid. <br /> <br />Civil dispatches; forms of menace. <br />Entitlements like unseen fetters. <br />Thus denied the human need to reap <br />and sow... save fifteen pounds a week. <br /> <br />Base retribution enforced, applied. <br />Destitute, difficult but alive. <br />Who conceived to criminalize man <br />and babe, in that green and pleasant land? <br /> <br />For those who know. <br />October 2005.<br /><br />Gillian.E. Shaw<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/issue-of-the-british-underclass-britain-1980-s/
