Request from arty people for my signature...

I recieved a request from the National Campaign for the Arts for my signature to a petition to stop cuts in the upcoming budjet, this is my response...

I fundamentally disagree with this request, while i do believe that art is entirely necessaru and the bedrock of society i do not believe that it can be saved from the axe in the budget, the greatest of art comes from the soul and not the wallet, its time for all those cry banies to wipe their eyes and get on with rebuilding the country from the ground up instead of all living in cloud cuckooland

consider for a moment this poem written by myself in 2005 and performed under duress and threat of arrest in dublins temple bar area

OLD AGE KILLS
Do you ever wake up in the morning and feel like your living inside of a cage
You jump in your car join the queue to get to work but traffic is in a great rage
Stories of political corruption, deception and murder occupy the front page
Your life could be like this forever, and then you'll die of old age

Gone is the Ireland of warriors and poets
Replaced by an island of wannabes and allknowits
Drivin '05's around P-P-P-PayAsYouGO roads
An economy fuelled by the banks who keep lending cashloads

So rise up ya poor man 'tis time to take up yer arms
The crash is a-comin' 'tis time to sound the alarms
Say up yours to Tesco's and replant the farms
And when the EuroPolitBureau comes knockin'
'Tis time to do them some harm
Chick-a-chick-Poooooohhh!!!!


Now thats fucking ART!!!