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‘Cocaine and me, by David Cameron’
Benedict Brogan and Jane Merrick
21 October 2005 Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-366088/Cocaine-David-Cameron.html
Does Rebekah Brooks,
The former editor of
The News of the World,
Have, as it’s rumoured,
A photograph of someone
Who’s snorting cocaine
From Sam Cameron’s breasts?
And could this perhaps be why
The Prime Minister
Is anxious to please
The Murdoch Empire, by his
Engaging its staff
As his own PR?
By supporting wars Murdoch
Supports, like Iraq
Libya and Iran?
“I won’t hear a word against her.
She lends me her horse” –
As the Premier
Might say, if he was challenged.
Tories think themselves,
And always have done,
As pure as the driven snow.
They don’t do ‘Sorry’…
Despite organizing
A lynch mob in Libya, which
Left eight thousand dead
For oil – done because
Gaddaffi was promoting
African Dollars,
Based on Libyan gold,
And the US didn’t like that.
Saddam, same story –
He wanted to sell
Oil in Euros, not dollars.
So both were demonized –
The US gangster’s rivals
Had to be killed, along with Iraqi
And Libyan children.
Eager British attack-dogs
Doing US dirty work
Joined in. Hired thugs
Found Libya’s leader
And sneakily found their way
To his rectum
Under his djellaba
They knifed him there over and again.
Their drones bombed his house.
Cameron said that
They’d done “a very good job”.
And he said the same,
Visiting Kabul,
“Bloody good job” he declared,
After four hundred
British troops had died
“Stopping another 9/11”
As if Afghan kids
Killed by US drones
(Now directed by GCHQ
From trendy Gloucestershire)
Were really a threat
To his pet Wall Street bankers,
Or Etonian chums.
Tony Montana
In Scarface, couldn’t invent
Such lunacy.
Want to join the mad club?
Snort some blow with Obama?
Kill Afghan goatherds?
Pretend you’re saving
Western civilization,
Like Winston Churchill?
Whose constant killing –
His Dresden terror bombing
And use of poison gas
And needless slaughter –
Drove him to drink. Now Cameron
Has the same dead look
Of the control freak
For whom coke’s the drug of choice:
Sucked into the brain
Through fifty pound notes
Careless of who’s killed en route
In Columbia.
Here’s cocaine’s secret:
It’s awful. Tories love it.
They feel powerful.
Cocaine’s made with bleach,
Benzene and sulphuric acid
In jungle clearings.
It leaves permanent traces
Based on the chemicals used.
Makes people nasty.
Scars their brain for life.
They unconsciously re-live
That chemical assault.
“I always tell the truth”,
Said Tony Montana
“Even when I lie.”
Coked out politicians
Like Bush and now Cameron
Share Scarface’s sociopathy.
Controlled by their dealers –
(For drug dealers read bankers)–
They become neurotic sadists.
‘Sell off everything!
To pay the dealers we owe!
Can’t owe our dealers!
So, sell all our roads!
Our pillar boxes, our fields!
And all our farmland!
‘Sell hospital beds!
Sell off school playgrounds!
Let’s just snort money!
‘Can’t owe the dealers,
The bankers, who put us into power.
Can’t owe the dealers. Rule One.’
But keep the Royal Family.
They’re the Tories’ lucky charm.
The mildewed corpses
In the Bates Motel –
The English House of Horror
At the end of the Mall…
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Illustration Nick Victor