The Land of Grimney - The Illustrated Adventures of Cora Pearl, aged 12

I am a simple man it seems
And happy I should be.
Not driven by the money train
Or chic celebrity

I wish to only live and breath
And find a house to dwell
And raise a little family
With loving wife as well

My only wants are very small
My outlook always bright
To work and earn to feed us all
To sleep so sound at night.

Be healthy and enjoy life so
To me is all it takes
But lately it's been touch and go
like someone hit the brakes.

For all around are darker foes
Who's wish it only seems
To break the hearts of simple men
And shatter all their dreams.

Men with money cheat and lie
Avoiding any sleaze
People in authority
We find so hard to please.

The law that stands to help us so
So strangely now entrenched
In battles with the "average Joe"
no thought of common sense.

Councils snoop and use our cash
To persecute the meek
While thugs with drugs grow like a rash
Each day of every week.

Politicians lie and shout
And lose the very focus
Of what their job is all about
a mire of Hocus Pocus.

They say that money is so short
They haven't got a bean.
Yet spend our cash on some report
It's really quite obscene

So what of I the simple man,
Who only wants to live?
And raise a little family
And has the love to give?.

Well truth be told upon my soul
A future I have none,
Like water down an unplugged hole
There's nowhere left to run..

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Oh Iceman! I hope you're ok!.........

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