Orange Protest
‘JUST TOP SOIL’ on orange T shirts; two fans
At the Ashes Test cocking a snook
At those match disrupters trying to look
Progressive, but ill-conceived, naïve plans
To be unsporting are easily foiled
And only provoke public annoyance
Rather than helping the cause to advance,
The wheels of reaction are too well oiled.
Protest brings headlines, but not policy,
Action leading to inaction, a schism
Obscuring how it’s capitalism
Frustrates reformers whoever they be.
Neither slogans nor satire can arrange
Circumstances to bring radical change.
D. A.