"Hidden Necessity"

Far too early

To be up at

The crack of dawn

To earn your corn

But needs must

And proud people must

Which explains why

The 63 bus

At four in the morning

Is standing room only

And I’m probably

The only White English born

Person on it.

And with a British passport

In my pocket, to boot!

Though I didn’t check upstairs;

But let’s face it who cares

As long as your

Office gets cleaned

For a pittance.

Slavery was abolished

Generations ago

But the spirit lives on.

Dulwich Poet 4^th May 2013

( I wrote this after the ‘success’ of the far-right ‘mainstream’ UKIP, in Thursday’s local council elections, albeit there were none in major cities. It made me think how businesses in the City would creak to a halt without their very poorly paid immigrant cleaning & security staff, and the ‘bus’ refers to when I occasionally get the first Eurostar of the morning from St Pancras International, when I go abroad, and who I see on the buses,in the middle of the night, to get there)