the purge

The Purge.

From Bath to
Calcutta
beggars have
disappeared;
a least
from our mind
and newspaper
columns.
India has
the biggest
bourgeoisie
in the world,
I read,
isn’t that nice
to know.
New IKEA
stores in
Liverpool
and
Bombay;
we are all
middle-class,
those who
sleep
on pavements
do so because
of the heat.
Poverty has been
eradicated.