Not enough stuff

Not enough stuff

We’re short on stuff

There’s not enough

The luck is tough

The sleep is rough

The food is duff

There’s job rebuff

Councillors bluff

Guff huff and puff

The bailiff comes

To struggling mums

In filthy slums

Where kids eat crumbs

There’s empty tums

Bleeding gums

Persistent hums

Dirty bums

There’s cold rads

Loan shark ads

Heartless cads

You’ve-been-hads

Towering pads

Flammable clads

Runaway lads

Violent dads

There’s vented spleens

Angry scenes

Ruined jeans

Homeless teens

Out-of-date beans

Soggy greens

Broke machines

A lack of means

There’s dereliction

Vows of fiction

False depiction

No conviction

Tension friction

House eviction

Drink addiction

Harm infliction

Reams

Of broken dreams

Abandoned schemes

Damaged beams

Extremes

Ripped seams

Low esteems

Silent screams

There’s scant relief

No legal brief

There’s rotting teeth

Endless grief

Collective beef

And disbelief

Was our chief

An Eton Thief?

And it could it be

Austerity

And it’s legacy

Of poverty

Was the greedy

Ideology 

Of an MP

On a yacht at sea?