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Sunday 4 March 2018

Making two wills


The first will:

The Will of the People!
It’s the phrase on everyone’s fucking lips isn’t it
Respect it.
The Will of the People!
The People Have Spoken!
You traitor!

The Will of the People -
Despite the obvious mathematical nonsense,
Statistics
That give the lie to
The foundation of the logic’s
Significance

The Will of the People
Should really be ‘The Will of
51.89 per cent of the 72.21 per cent
Of the People that voted
Having been lied to
Cause ya know we’re sick of experts, and
Whatever.'

The Will of the People?
I’d join in the chorus with all the others
If, oh, if
The Will of the People
The People have Spoken
Meant that the

Will of the People

was for:

                Equal opportunity, an end to exploitation, housing and healthcare for all, meaningful work, free education, embracing our variety and openness to the world, working together not against each other, knowing that ultimately none of us gets out alive and we are stronger if we can find common ground, that humans are creative and sociable and learn to select our own graves of mediocrity and learn to hate even though babies are told that sharing is good and playing together is good and wow great artistic drawing you are so clever. You know? 

The Will. A document that's only read properly after you're gone and it doesn't fucking matter any more. Passing on whatever crap and nonsense your life has accumulated, so the next generation has to deal with it.

Respectfully.


The second will:
(tl;dr -

If:
The Will of the People
The Will of the fucking People
The Fucking Will of the Fucking People
Was just that things were fair,

I’d write that on a fucking bus.)


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