Take your “banana republic,” and shove it
Take your Tory shambolitics and stuff it in your offshore havens
Take your “will of the people”, your “letterbox” rhetoric, of intolerance and divide, and insert it where the sun don’t shine
Let’s take this hammer and smash all that you stand for
this banana symbolic of your colonial bygone
let’s crush it and make it gone
destroy capitalistic icon
Bringing white privilege out of the closet
stop allowing the rich a place to cosset
Naming not our resistance but owning the values held dear
Love
True peace
A system that’s fair
Ashamed of your dog whistle diplomacy
tired of veiled racism
far right, anti-semitic, populist, Nazi, KKK, whatever your name, just stop with the hate already
The Fruit Company
at the root of this outmoded currency of decadent indifference, wilful ignorance,
the delicate wastelands of America, burning books faster than Bradbury could ever have imagined
Do they feel what strong love is
how powerful the collective
harnessing inverse invective
to bring the order to its knees
Copyright John de Gruyther 2020
The World Outside the Window 