rainbows in curved air (or curves in rainbowed air)

Hard Times

When we were young, we were so poor,

our Sunday lunch was a cornflake, without milk

& most definitely

without sugar.

When we were young, we worked so hard,

we missed two centuries

of industrial change

& the birth of the Welfare State.

When we were young, we were saddened

by the fall of the Roman Empire & their exodus from our shores,

so, we fought the Germans instead.

When we were young,

we used to be this tall,

but now we are small , bald & fat

like this.....