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A Middle Class Hero

A middle class hero is something to be.
He's well spoken and well dress'd which suggests
he's better than you, I think you'll agree.

With PC bigotry for all to see,
it's fashion that dictates who he resists -
a middle class hero is something to be.

He takes his place at University
where there is inevitable progress:
he's better than you, I think you'll agree.

He shows piety through false charity;
in times past, he would've paid to be bless'd.
A middle class hero is something to be.

A job is found at daddy's company,
the worker's surplus labour he extracts.
He's better than you, I think you'll agree.

By reason of his class he's your payee,
a raceless apartheid no one protests.
A middle class hero is something to be,
He's better than you, I think you'll agree.
Written by AnonymousBystander
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Author's Note
A villanelle for another villain. This villain though is just an accident of birth and all that follows from the circumstances into which he's born.  As to the poem ... I think it could be a lot better.  I'm going to let the dust settle then tinker with it.  Something to listen to after or during reading the poem, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMewtlmkV6c
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