There’s a cruel rank and file in the town of Most Vile
and you haven’t a hope to get in .
So press on regardless or you’re pushed out of town,
by your scruples or else by your sin .
There’s too many pokers in the fires of hell
And they tell you what a great job they’ve done .
They walk tall in town and they’d love to take you down
If only to Most Vile you would come.
It’s a long way here but a short way out
When you’re not one of the people with the clout .
So you either stay and salute all Most Viles astute
Or rebel and jump up and shout .
Down the long road of life we must walk for a while
with our feet in the muck as we go .
It’s a hard yard and mile when people Most Vile
are the rivals who are running the show .
But if all that they share is their own Devils Lair
its no wonder they they’ve lost their smile .
Cold hearted and stern faced fork tongued and disgraced
Are the people who have ruled in Most Vile .
Paul, this is one fantastic write. I have unfortunately been to the town Most Vile and though I saw truth I didn't turn and get out soon enough. Your pen is powerful here and speaks much truth.
Reviewed by Katy Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on August 21, 2004
Wow! A commentary dripping with bold, in-your-face truths... these are the things we think in our deep recesses when we entertain defeat... you give the unspoken a pair of legs and feet and poetically stick it in the reader's face! Astonishingly poetic, yet you don't flinch for a second... this is really great stuff! Your internal rhyme and gliding meter gives it a wonderful voice. You called it what it is! I tip my hat! katy xox.
While Debtors prisons no longer exist, many people continue to be persecuted for crimes related to poverty or inability to repay money owed to municipalities. This practice remains in an injustice that needs to be rectified.
While Debtors prisons no longer exist, many people continue to be persecuted for crimes related to poverty or inability to repay money owed to municipalities. This practice remains in an injustice that needs to be rectified.