Poetry on the way back from #blogfest 2013

I still haven't finished my #blogfest post despite it being live, in beta format (it's the one before this one).

But I wanted to share with you the poetry I wrote on the way home on Saturday, from Kings Cross in London, UK:

The Lie!
Don't you think something's wrong

When the recession's going on too long?

As the towns start to gentrify

Can you see it's all been a lie?

Let's make the building costs go down

Whilst we build for "crown"

No worry 'bout loyalty

Tis about royalty

The man on the street is an ass

He's just working class

Let's divide and rule

For he's only a fool!

He works hard you see

No time to think and be!

What you say he'll swallow

No concern for tomorrow

Let's get bread on the table

However you're able

For some it's steak

For others it's chips they'll make

Energy prices they soar

So we're always wanting more

To eat or heat

Not a simple treat

The pubs they close

Nowhere to discuss our woes

No money for a computer

That way you're muter

Stay at home and suffer

Till it's all over

Then you'll see no democracy

The world rearranged for inequality

So wake up be enlightened

Don't be frightened

Empower each other

Don't be afraid of Big Brother

We're on the brink of new times

It's not a time for rhymes!

I am reaching out to you

To be MORE than the FEW

This is only a ditty

It might not be pretty

It was written in speed 

and not for greed

It's the inspired word

That I simply "heard"

In this brain of mine

Words out! Now fine!

© Original work - Written: by Liska 09/11/13 

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I wrote this poem on the way home, 

as a result of seeing the new Kings Cross 

and the beginnings of a new Tottenham 

on the way home from #blogfest 2013

I was only able to afford to go to the 
conference
 thanks to my Sponsor: 

The English Mattress Company

The poem has a sing song melody, which I want you to hear, but Aaron won't let me record it - I will when he is asleep!

This video, (during the opening and closing slides)
for anyone who does not know/visit London, will show the regeneration (or gentrification) of Kings Cross that is happening:

I did love being IN the building though so I guess
that makes me a hypocrite
- happy to admit that :-(
I am going to try and read up on gentrification now.

I'll add some links to what I find:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/28/interestingcheesesandgentri http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/revealed-the-gentrification-map-of-london-8808754.html  

This will touch your soul:  
The cleansing of Hackney  
You have to read it (^) if only to get to this paragraph: But Tony had competition. A Kent-based millionaire property developer named Roger Wratten, who had recently snapped up the properties on either side of Tony’s place, had his eye on Francesca’s. An unidentified ‘someone’ informed him that Tony was trying to buy it, and from that point on, all Tony’s attempts to do so were thwarted – paperwork was lost, phone calls went unreturned. For three years, Tony struggled for the simple right to buy his own business. But in February 2003, it was sold, at auction, 
to Roger Wratten.

This you tube video about gentrification is interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wBpL_iAeOc  I have recorded me reading the poem but ideally would like a rapper to do it:

Adding it to here: