WHERE WILL THEY BE ON X-MAS DAY?

WHERE WILL THEY BE ON X-MAS DAY

As our children
stare wide eyed
at glass cases of sweets
that their poor father's
can no longer afford to buy for them
to sweeten their Xmas days -
where will the shefs* be on that day?

As mother's patch old clothes
that their children can cover their buttocks
and their husbands their crotches
between their perforated trouser legs -

as cockroaches threaten mutiny
inside bare cupboards
faced by the beautifu face of hunger
in houses where once voices laughed
on sunny Xmas days -
where will the shefs be on that day
with their looted public funds

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*shef - party big shots