Christopher Hansard:[ Nature is a straight line ]

Soon the halls will be decked with holly

and peace and goodwill will be trumpeted

but in the backstreets and the warzones

in the broken hearts and the cold coffee

the messiah never came

the hungry and disempowered

the angry and the speechless

there were no good times

christmas

is not a global holiday in origin

but made so not by christianity

but by the expansionist economics of the 19th century

if you want to know the origins of the credit crunch

look to those times

when man thought that

nature is a straight line