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Paul Jones

2401

it's sadness when you can't AFFORD TO BE SICK
if you haven't got the cash then they'll prefer you to drop dead
outside of the waiting room
this is so that they don't have to get off their fat backsides
and scrap your pathetic germ infested body away from the cue line
that can afford the fifty pound examination fee

it's sadness when you CAN'T AFFORD TO BE SICK
if you're born south of rich street then the state considers you
a liability and hope to their big cheese gods that you'll die in infancy
it's cheaper to make a smaller coffin and less manual labour
hours in digging a shallow grave

it's sadness when you can't AFFORD TO BE SICK
when the overweight guy in the next bed to you gets the pace
maker gets the cancer treatment gets the kidney donor gets the
hip replacement gets the best doctors for the job
as you lay struggling for an ounce of breath with the tumour
sticking its painknife through your guts
left abandoned as a no hope case costing too much and taking up a
bed that could be given to the executive of a biscuit factory
whose suffering from piles and is willing to pay the health
authorities three grand just to be able to shit in comfort again
you wonder what the hell the world has come to
the great divide split right up to its edges
this is a shit state
and this is a shit state of affairs

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