It’s something you expect in Afghan’stan or Bagdad
Not in the Wandsworth Road
Helicopter crashing into a crane
To make that up you’d be insane
And the crane driver was late for work
Out of character not known to shirk
What’s that? “A miracle”! You cry
Your big whopper I’m not going to buy
Not such a great one for families of two dead
I think we’ll take that one as read
Simple bad luck it hit the tower
Fuck all to do with a higher power.
Though ‘miracle’ cries were a tad mute
Don’t want your God portrayed a brute
S’funny how the Bible Boys pick & choose
Claiming credit with nothing to lose.
Chilean miners buried in hell
Who got the credit, well pray tell
It’s that God chap that saved them all
Responding to their praying call
Yet he was the cunt who buried them first
“You bastard God” is what they cursed!
But they all came up alive
All back slapping & high five.
Saved by the dad of that Jesus chap
How can anyone believe that crap?
Chilean miners not ready to die
But he left Lakenal to choke and fry
Call me old fashioned if you must
When it comes to religion I’m not fussed.
Because if this God can pick & choose
By giving him a swerve I’ve nothing to lose.
Dulwich Poet-January 2013
(A helicopter crashed into a crane, which on top of a skyscraper block of flats, at Vauxhall, on 16th January, killing the pilot & one person on the ground. In 2010 33 Chilean miners spent 69 days trapped underground, before being rescued. Lakenal is a block of council flats in Camberwell, where there was fire, in which six people died, in July 2009 )
(I read this at 'Outsider Performers', part of the Shuffle Festival , which was on the sit of St. Clements Hospital, Bow, E3.)
(I read this at 'Outsider Performers', part of the Shuffle Festival , which was on the sit of St. Clements Hospital, Bow, E3.)
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