HARD BREXIT

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poem, poetry, satire, sexual symbolism

HARD BREXIT

feel your sovereignty
does it not
feel good?

get down
low give it
a good
hard rub

nothing to
eat
nowhere to go

just play with
your sovereignty
all night long
so good to
be right, absolutely
goddam right,
and
alone

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SEVEN HEADS

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poem, poetry

SEVEN HEADS

forget your
social Darwinism
(neatly used a
different f word
to capture
a different
evolutionary niche)

do you see
wealth and poverty
mirrored in
Nature

haves and have nots
set in hugely structural
binary oppositions

flowers without
petals and

those
with seven heads

FOLLOW

Tags

narcissism, poem, poetry, satire

FOLLOW

follow him
dive into
the warped mirror

so what
if you cannot tell
who truly drowns
and where it is all
just a distortion

nothing matters
but that you follow
where he
leads

the beauty of
having this
image to lead

AT ALL

Tags

Nazi, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry

AT ALL

read a book
from cover
to cover

suddenly my
life
looked
so other

my world
and its flag
so very small

this
I did not
expect
at all

BURN ME

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Nazi, poem, poem poetry political moral, Universe

BURN ME

the book called out to me
“burn me, burn me”
I deal in fictions, I
cast spells of lies

and so, being
a man of truth, of
the Bible and petrol
I did oblige

MEEK AND MILD

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Nazi, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, writing

MEEK
AND MILD

burn my books
please

it’s what
I want

the demons
I write
only come
alive at
451
Fahrenheit

one tracked
and caught
a Nazi
once

tortured him down
to his last
blood-
drop

had him
crying like
a little child

returned
to innocence
meek
and mild

VIPER

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire

VIPER

satire is
ambush predator

sits still
perfectly camouflaged
(Oh those snake
eyes of Sasha Baron!)

waits for the hapless
prey to
stumble along

tripped up by old
school tie and other
upper class baggage

desperate for a drink or
(more likely) to
check out
it’s spiffing image in
local or
international pool

last look baby
this venom is
just cruel

ALBION

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poem, poetry, power

ALBION

after the war
the wolves returned

scouring the
broken land

at the heart of the last battle
a tree still stood
alive with
slithering adders
as many
as leaves

and now this history
cannot be written, for who
can remember the
causes that
divided, the lines
that were drawn

no left, right, centre
no
houses of
assembly, tennis
court or
football pitch for
supposing parties
to muster, factions to
gather

just one binary, two
irreconcilable groups
cleaved down the
middle: camp
of the scarred, shattered, wounded
and that of the dead.

FREEDOM

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Nazi, poem, poetry, power

FREEDOM

they scream Freedom
but want walls
prisons

they cry Liberty
but want
the death penalty

I only believe them
why they talk blood

hard not
to see that word
dripping, pouring
seas, oceans of it

when they let that truth
glide into view
hardly slipping
off the tongue

CARCHARIAS

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, pride, satire

CARCHARIAS

I am the
god of
free trade
I do not
potter around
allotments

fixing fruit, tending
to my vegetables.

No, I’m more your dog-eat
raw-meat kind of deity
carcharodon carcharias
in human shape

without
the acumen

without the grace