Doing my research on Dickens

I went to the library,

To find some information

‘Bout this bloke called Dickens,

And the time of impoveration 

So I sat down in the archives

With an old newspaper to read

It was full of all these stories

That were very sad indeed

Children, they were starving 

Coz their parents had money

Diseases spread through the population

Like the rising waters of a Tsunami

Rich folk just got richer

While the poor were paid so bad

Counting their money without thought for the safety

Of the common old working class lad

Politicians did not care

For the plight of the common set

Blaming them for the place they were in

It was their fault they were so heavily in debt

There was an extremely palatable social divide

Between the withs and those without

The right environment for criminal gangs

A government with corruption throughout 

I was shock at the state of poor people’s lives

At the time when Charles was writing away

I was stunned to my core when I looked at the date

And realised the paper was only purchased today.