{"id":13823,"date":"2021-01-13T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/cheap-flights-cheap-hands-cheap-lives\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T12:27:33","slug":"cheap-flights-cheap-hands-cheap-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/cheap-flights-cheap-hands-cheap-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>by Antoniy T. Georgiev<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They pour into the West<br \/>Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives<br \/>They wear the paint of the oppressors<br \/>Yet share the faith of the oppressed<br \/>Their fathers and mothers were once told <br \/>They were building socialism<br \/>Now they are told<br \/>To pick asparagus and berries<br \/>Sort parcels and haul bricks<br \/>Clean floors and scrub toilets<\/p>\n<p>Their bosses like them<br \/>They say \u2018You never complain\u2019 <br \/>About the minimum wage<br \/>The twelve-hour day<br \/>The disgusting abuse at full display<br \/>The ruined back that will forever stay<\/p>\n<p>At home their politicians grin gleefully<br \/>Smiles full of gluttony and savagery<br \/>In between sips of champagne<br \/>They proudly say <br \/>\u2018At last, we are Europeans!\u2019<br \/>As they sell their people abroad<br \/>And all the while<br \/>Economists and journalists, thieves and liars<br \/>Reach down to pat<br \/>Their obedient eastern brothers<br \/>And softly tell them<br \/>\u2018Now you are free,<br \/>thanks to capitalism and democracy,<br \/>free from the communist tyranny\u2019<br \/>Ah yes, free<br \/>Free to be Western Europe\u2019s new colony<br \/>Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives<\/p>\n<p><em>The image above is &#8216;A Poem Falls to Earth&#8217; by David Hugh Lockett<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives by Antoniy T. Georgiev They pour into the WestCheap flights, cheap hands, cheap livesThey wear the paint of the oppressorsYet share&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}