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Clowns<\/strong><\/p>\n Every few years we get the chance, break promises so easily made, no shame in cat-calls, insults, petty <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n George Fripley<\/strong> writes poetry and fiction, and blogs on whatever comes to mind at anothergrumpycommuter.wordpress.com<\/a>. He has had a handful of poems published as well as a satirical manual for the civil servant. He lives in Perth, Western Australia.\u00a0 he blogs about ‘ordinary people from history’ here: dregsofhistory.blogspot.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clowns Every few years we get the chance, stroll down the road, tick another box or two, decide which toad will screw us over for the next few, break promises so easily made, take junkets too, raid our wallets with glee, those well-dressed few who spew smug platitudes and see no shame […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nstroll down the road,
\ntick another box or two,
\ndecide which toad
\nwill screw us over for the next few,<\/p>\n
\ntake junkets too,
\nraid our wallets with glee,
\nthose well-dressed few
\nwho spew smug platitudes and see<\/p>\n
\nparliamentary
\ngames \u2013 he said, she said. Lice!
\nYou disgust me,
\nyou clowns for whom we pay the price.<\/p>\n