Unpaid Bounties

Another one o’ those days where th’ weather’s 

as half-assed and unconvincing as our current 

Government, but that’s the norm I hear y’ say -  

or was it a postscript to whatever you’d wisely 

kept silent, given th’ options you’ve left & thus, 

instead of disenfranchising yourself, you’d just 

made th’ grade as a wise and erudite observer 

of th' unchanging mess we’re having to inherit 

But you can’t blame the Government for those 

unholy explications of why ‘extremes’ exist for 

what was once metrological normality, or am I 

being naive; the thing is, no-one’s making that 

capital gain out of it you’re supposed to - thus 

passing th’ golden spoon of opportunity on to 

th’ next generation - who’re bemused as we’ll 

have to agree we were to our forebears; & yet, 

somehow, it wasn’t th’ weather’s intervention - 

if there’s a causality it seems t’ exist where all 

‘change’ explanations reject whose ‘richness’ 

didn’t pay any, at all, of the proper bounties 

© 11 December 2018, I. D. Carswell