CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR

for the last several months
i have withheld my labour from the market
i have declined to pay war taxes

which finance mayhem in faraway countries

i have rejected the employ of remote and cold-hearted institutions
where cost trumps value every time
in short i have withdrawn from the fray
i have read
i have listened
i have reflected
i have meditated

i have been a family man

i have taught myself piano

i have written poetry and songs

i have disappointed messrs osborne n cameraman

for my activities have been of no economic value

i have therefore run my financial resources low

and made myself unpopular with wife and bank manager

i admit temporary defeat to keep the bailiffs from the door

but my protest is far from over