Austerity Kills - Memoriam

Not the cuts of a scalpel

These are cuts of a butcher’s knife

Devastating effects

On human life

Imposed to cure recession

Affecting those most poor

Society’s most vulnerable

Cannot take much more

A system of repression

That cannot be endured

Impacting on the weakest

This cannot be ignored

Austerity kills

Austerity kills

Austerity kills

Austerity kills

Survival of the richest

Corporations under-taxed

Increasing spiral of poverty

Society under attack

Not the cuts of a scalpel

These are cuts of a butcher’s knife

Devastating effects

On human life

A shameful crisis of morality

As millions live and die in poverty

Is this the 21st century?

There has to be a better way

Austerity kills

Austerity