Let me tell you what fuck all is.
It's invisible, nada it's you don't exist or matter.
That's what fuck all is.
It's Theresa May plastic faced spouting nothing tangible
That's fuck all.
Fuck all is the offer on the table
It's the option of government
Fuck all is the Big Society
That's fuck all.
Fuck all would spit in your eye
If it recognised your eye
If it recognised your humanity.
Fuck all pisses all over the crap of you,
That's fuck all.
Fuck all is the BBC bullying Darcus Howe
It's the BBC calling him a rioter.
The BBC that's fuck all.
Fuck all ignores the question
It hides in denial
Fuck all loves us blaming
That's fuck all.
Fuck all takes your jobs
Bulldozes your youth clubs
Labels you lazy and nothing
That's fuck all.
Fuck all destroys more than we burn
It's the politics of the rich and evil
And yes I said evil.
A tramp dies of cold
In the shadow of a home
That's fuck all
That's evil.
People are fuck all
Poor people are fuck all
Angry people are fuck all
Addicts are fuck all
Students are fuck all
The unemployed are fuck all
The dispossessed are fuck all
The unemployable are fuck all
Single mothers are fuck all
The unlovable are fuck all
The abused are fuck all
The fucked are fuck all.
Fuck all will burn down your capital
That's fuck all.
[Written in the aftermath of England's riots in August. Published with permission from the author. Gerry Potter is a British poet. Visit www.myspace.com/gerrypotterpoet .]