Tony Milligan

Author bio

Mr X Ex-husband ex-father ex-lover ex-soldier I seem to collect ex’s as I grow older Ex-worker ex-person now I’m retired They want me ex-living, they want me ex-pired I’m just an ex-pense or so it would seem A drag on resources quite too ex-treme Ex-tortionate demands I make on the state Asking what I paid in for to ex-acerbate The dire position we’re in as a nation By greedily holding this crass ex-pectation I’m a drag on ex-chequer I should ex-it this place Take Ex-treme unction and go with good grace Ex gratia payments? Seems they’re all right For every ex-tremist, it’s their ‘uman rite To ex-ploit the system, have everything free All their ex-penses are on you and me It’s just their politics they want to ex-tol By causing ex-plosions that seems their goal We cannot ex-port then to where they come from Cos they face ex-ecution for murders they’ve done Ex-cuse me for thinking this just isn’t fair Shouldn’t their ex-country pay its fair share? It seems all this ex-creta is now the norm Getting ex-cited considered bad form So here is your ballot paper just place your eX Don’t matter who’s in now, don’t matter who’s next All our ex-pletives won’t do any good So when my ex-oskeleton’s made out of wood Bury me deep in some far secret plot And put on my tombstone X marks the spot