With just one chokeYou must be wokeTruth can’t be spokeCan’t tell a jokeCan take a tokeBut cannot smokeThe fires they stokeHate and provokeThe mighty oakCannot be brokeSo let this soakWe will not croakThe beast may pokeWe’ll don prayer’s cloakAnd with a loving strokeGod saves his folk. By Sylvia Ridwort, pseudonym