High Street Retail

Like Oliver Twist they’d like to ask for more,
But they are lucky just to be employed.
So say the fatcats grinding down the poor
To make shareholders really overjoyed.

The boss gets umpteen million for his pay.
How much to do with letting slowly starve
The foreign workers in his pending tray
Whose numbers he would much prefer to halve?

Is capitalist system then at fault?
No. Not the system only its bad drivers.
Rank greed will bring compassion down to naught
And press to death impoverished, hopeless strivers.

The dividend increases in a flood
But is it stained with someone else’s blood?

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