(Day 8) Goodbye, Maggie Thatcher

Goodbye Maggie

Causing tragedy what was she was good at.

Not making funny cups of coffee

With floaters like walls

Or making molehills

Out of mountains.

Not creating wars 
to keep themselves in power

Or lining up bottles like bullets

And missing the target every time.

Not forging letters

Containing made up offences

Or causing riots

Over the poll tax
just for the hell of it. 

Causing tragedy what was she was good at.

Tragedy was causing people to live

Hand to mouth

On a stone’s throw.

Tragedy was the creation of the miner’s strike

Through pig headed politics.

(See quotes like ‘we had to fight the enemy

Without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the

enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and

more dangerous to liberty' displaying her
attitude to the miners)

Endless queues outside the Job Centre.

Unemployment at 3 million.

Privatisation of state owned companies
and reducing the power 
and influence of trade unions.

The Moss Side Riots.

Causing tragedy what was she was good at.

An Wall Street on masses.

An flag I now leave an quarter drawn

on the edge of a darkness
that still threatens to swamp our country
even now. 

(Sadly the prompt for Napwimio today got overtook by the news of the death of
Margaret Thatcher, ex british prime ministor. This is my tribute to her if that is the right word)