Riot is an Art Form.

The freedom to discover truth is integral to anarchy.
The right to revolt, deeply sourced in history.
Who knows if revolution can establish a democracy?
At least let us be rid of the slime of corrupt bureaucracy.
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Lock and load my friend, fire words straight and true
against the artifice of society in which reward stays overdue.
Let art grow into rebellion; come people, loot the shelves,
there are abundant words and wisdom for us to gorge ourselves.
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Our ministers of parliament, smart of dress and white of smile,
expenses claimed in government keep them in a style
to which they are now accustomed.
Champagne deceptions, shirking parties, Cabernet meetings;
that’s them leading by example,
homes and bodies more than ample
as they parade the finest shambles
of privilege and ownership
whilst working families raise their kids
to respect a queen and her House of Lords,
while they, imprisoned in soul free towers, is all they can afford

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When government becomes criminal,
condemns the stranger, resents the poor,
it’s an invitation, subliminal,
to raise yourself above the law.
For it’s ‘they’ that plant the flowers of rebellion,
as ‘they’ breed mistrust around everything;
‘they’ sow the seeds of propaganda and repression,
so this enraged poet will sing
anthems that will nourish vagabonds and rebels,
promise to light stars for revolutionary devils
whose riot evolves into more than a language;
into an art-form for those men not heard.
We don’t vote politicians into power,
we elect them to serve..