How will you protect the women

How will you protect the women

When they say they don’t belong

When you cannot use the words

Women used all along

How will you protect yourself

In the places that once were safe

Now that they belong to others

Who have usurped your rightful place

Did you fight to save these spaces or

Did you say you didn’t care

That you didn’t have a problem

That others now were coming there

Did you listen to your sisters

When they said they didn’t need

To share these spaces for the reasons

That these others didn’t heed

Those that were attacked and beaten

Those that then did face much worse

Those that live each day with trauma

That these others could make worse

Did you fight back in your own way

With leaflets, stickers, placards too

Did you speak to those in power

Tell them that this wouldn’t do

When the words were taken from us

When they said that facts weren’t true

Did you shout them all the louder

Did you join in with our crew

Did you sit there oh so quietly

Agreeing with their lofty air

While they came for those around you

Hoping they won’t see you there

Did you realise it didn’t matter

No matter what you do or say

They will come for you as well

Because its you that’s in their way

They do not want their own spaces

They do not want us to be free

They want to impact in our places

They want women to cease to be

They want to show that they are stronger

They want to keep us in our place

The place that they created for us

A place that we will always hate

Will you now join with us fighters

To protect the things we all do need

To protect our words spaces

To join in with these radical deeds

You do not have to be as brave

As members that have gone before

Small deeds will always be welcome

In our radical feminist core

But we need you to take notice

To listen to our voices true

To speak up with the loudest voices

To join us in what we must do

How will you protect the women

With the words they have forbad

How will you protect the women

When we live in Gilead

Bunnies against Brexit

There was a little bunny

Who didn’t know what to do

Cause some parts of the country

Had voted to leave the EU

But the part the bunny lived in

Had voted to stay in

And everyone was feeling sad

Because they didn’t win

The people that had won the vote

We’re acting very mean

We won so stop complaining

And come and join our team

We don’t care about your problems

We don’t want to hear your plan

It doesn’t even matter

That its different in your land

We are in charge here

You must to what you’re told

That made the bunny very cross

And very very bold

Its time to take some action

The little bunny stated

Just because some voted out

Doesn’t mean its fated

So the little bunny thought at lot

And gathered all his friends

And made a plan, more like a plot

To bring the madness to an end

He wrote in all the papers

And appeared on the TV

To start to persuade all the land

That they should all be free

He worked carefully and slowly

To turn opinion round

To convince those who last said no

That freedom could be found

He worked with lots of others

Who had similar goals to him

And though they didn't agree on everything

They worked together to win.

The fight is not yet over

But a least we have a plan

And small pink cuddly bunny

Will be there to hold our hand

Cancer

Just heard that Victoria Wood has died of Cancer.  She was only 62

Fuck you cancer

You have taken someone else

Another from my childhood

Another of the best

They weren’t very old

They gave us such a lot

And still you bloody took them

And left in lives a gap

I am sad for those who loved them

For those who loved their work

But mostly I am angry

And it really is deserved

You keep destroying lives

And though we try to fight

We seem to keep on losing

And it’s really very trying

But someday we will beat you

And until that glorious day

Fuck you cancer

I hope you die away

Bunny of doom - Maniefesto Launch

Today was the SNP Manifesto Launch in Edinburgh and this is what would have happened if the bunny of doom attended



I am a little bunny who is very pink and small
I went to the manifesto launch and man I had a ball
I got cuddles of the First Minister
And cuddles from her team
I appeared in lots of photographs
And on the BBC
And when they were distracted
I implemented my evil plan
And now a little bunny is in charge of all the land

And now I am in charge
You should all listen to me
Because I have the backing of all the SNP
And first against the wall
Are the ones that should know better
So watch out Mr PM
Cause I am coming down to get you

Equality

Today's the day the women say
The day the world will go our way
The day we all will become free
To live in a world of equality
But today is another sequel
Today we will not become equal
Because today we look and see
Today we start working for free
In 2015 it still is true
That we are not paid as much as you
Because you're male you get paid more
And women seem to know the score
Even though we work as hard
From parts of life we still are barred
So today is not the day
And will not be until we're paid
The same as men because its true
That we are just as good as you

Bunny of Doom

There was a little bunny that was very pink and small

Who didn’t think the world was very fair to him at all

And so this little bunny had a cunning plan

This cute, pink little bunny would take over the land

The Bunny went to Westminster to talk to the PM

He said that the First Minister had said that they were lame

That England was just rubbish and Scotland should be free

And nobody could stop her and the SNP

He then bounced off to Scotland and spoke to the FM

And told her that Westminster would bind Scotland in chains

They planned to close the parliament and make Scotland their slaves

And only he, the bunny, could stop this taking place

He tricked the politicians into writing laws

That gave him lots of power – they thought to fight their cause

There was lots of legal jargon and some special hidden parts

That helped the little bunny keep the power that he sought

All the laws got passed and the politicians had a shock

What they actually had wanted was nothing like they got

The bunny had the power and he continued with his plan

For now this little bunny was in charge of all the land

The people they were frightened of what might come to be

So they listened very closely when he made his first decree

I am a little bunny that is small and pink its true

And because I am so little no one listened to my view

There are others out there like me who seem to be ignored

Because they are called different and can’t fight for their own cause

I am going to make some changes so everyone is free

To live a happy life in peace and equality

So the bunny made some new laws and made sure they very obeyed

And most everyone was happy and the worlds a better place

And those that disobeyed them very quickly learned

Don’t mess with little rabbits or you’re sure to end up burned

The moral of this story is to listen to the small,

To those of us who are different, in fact thats nearly all

And now we are all happy and just because we can

We have a celebration cause a Bunny rules our land

Word Wood

In the word wood you can see

Poetry hung from the trees

And stories hunting over ground

To where the writers can be found

Or do the writers hunt the words

To try and make the stories heard

Sometimes dreamers come and see

Imagination running free

They grab ideas and take them home

To new words were ideas can roam

To change the world to something new

To open doors to let others to

Discover a wood were words are free

And poetry hangs from the trees