Plague Songs - Freedom / by Rich Hobbs

There’s a bored baboon who’s wanking on the bonnet of our car

In an empty precinct lined by closed up shops

And there is in his demeanour something telling us, thus far,

There’s no real point in trying to call the cops.

Before he’d started wanking he had shat, & through it squirmed

Foul parasites that grinned & coiled like vipers

And his face did not reveal just what such things might have confirmed

As the baboon ripped off both our windscreen wipers.

An iron collar round his neck had worn a scarlet weal,

Rusty chains thread from it to a distant door

Where a short man's counting money that he stole from an appeal

Celebrities had got up for the poor.

He comes to climax. Christ! The beast's spunk stinks of stale iced buns!

He weeps - the poor thing’s very highly strung.

He’d been dreaming about liberals being hunted down with guns,

Eugenics, vaccines, tax and Toby Young.

Then the baboon bares his yellow fangs & pimps his purple arse

And lifts a leg to copiously pee

In our faces, thankfully protected by the windscreen glass,

And both of us imagine that we’re free.

There’s a bored baboon still wanking on the bonnet of our car.

We stare at him and he stares back at us.

And neither of us thinks that things would not have got this far

If only we had thought to catch the bus.