The cuckoo's bronze egg

Today I spied a cuckoo fly

above a golden cignet's lair

and for a while she settled there.

She left a bronze-laid alloyed egg,

for the swans had blinded eyes,

and she cackled at her own audacity.

Unwittingly they nursed that egg,

tainted though it made the nest,

as when the bronze defiler hatched

he slew the chicks and flew,

where he knew best,

at one with the pigs in the sky.

Not my family

I cannot feel sad. How can I be?

I did not know her, she didn't know me.

Understandably, some mourn.

She has been an evergreen, if slowly withering presence.

But she was born into luxury. Sheer, entitled luxury.

She had dibs on all the land under my feet.

And so does he.

No-one made them serve, if that's what it is.

My taxes paid for it.

Can we leave it as it is.

An antique.

A relic.

Queen Elizabeth II,

the best, and last, of a brazen bunch who never had a right to rule over me.

Rishi rich and thick Lizzy

No chance of win if inflation sticks,

Rishi rich says, as thick Lizzy

strays down the Tory u bend

where it's hard to bleach,

never mind brush,

so deep down.

I wonder who'll clean it up?

A new election dawns,

Rishi rich plucks pennies from the pawns,

golden ducks trot through Tunbridge lawns,

quacking maniacally, guffaw,

they don't know any better, the poor.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, and the terrible tale of power

Some say, forgive them,

that Amber Heard,

or misheard,

mutually abused

that jolly pirate rogue.

I don't buy that.

If I bought that,

I'd have to conclude that Ukraine

mutually attacked

the Russian invaders.

One must not hit back, you know.

Take it quietly.

Think of England, or Putin. Something.

Just deal with it.

But in the plays of power

that's the narrative that sustains.

Shit stains on the bed (disproven),

for some,

proof she had it coming.

Millions in Gaza displaced,

their homes taken away,

their schools and hospitals razed.

Yet mere stones and miscellaneous rockets,

against the missiles and air defences,

brand the abused the aggressors

according to the oppressors.

That's the poison of power,

this narrative that's hard to shake.

And so the the popular opinion rests

with the one they like to think

is their funny, pirate friend.

The other?

At her wits' end.

"And you dare to call me a terrorist,

while you look down your gun,

and I think of all the deeds that you have done.

You have plundered many nations,

divided many lands,

you have terrorised their people,

you ruled with an iron hand

and you brought this reign of terror

to my land."

Stuffed

Stuff everywhere, this planet,

too much stuffing stuff,

hardly room to move,

hardly time to stuff,

sake for stuffing stuff.

They stuff it in the mail,

needless paper stuff,

full of my stuffing details,

so I stuff it with more stuff,

gathering stuffing dust.

Stuff for the sake of stuffing stuff,

stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff,

get me off this planet, please,

to stuff up someone else's stuff.

The gold-laced wind

Fleeced in flaxen light,

the wind must now be golden,

my energy bills swollen,

as my fair wits face a slight

yet without recourse to fight

the injustice,

the gaslight.

Renewably,

I cannot bluster surprise

through my wool-beclouded eyes,

when there's no price paid for greed,

cronyists hoisting the lead,

unimpeded,

unabashed.

When the markets crash

once again they'll soar on gold

laced winds above the clods sold

down many a mud strewn trail,

matter churned to no avail,

bilked, diddled out

in the cold.

 

Liar Liar, House on Fire

Pro rogue was a true enough description of Johnson's rise,

throbbing whopper after throbbing whopper,

as embers from his blazing saddle set curtains alight

and he brazenly wafts an empty extinguisher.

Liar, liar! Call the opposition benches.

Too much, says Mr Speaker, take it back.

One cannot, in this parliament, declare facts,

that would be quite untoward, and without precedent.

Gwyneth Paltrow's Vagina

 Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina beguiles,

bamboozles, torments and terrifies

me in equal measure, much like the notion

of Boris preparing to mount 

one of his victims, or the British electorate. 

I'm a man of science and statistics, 

in a constant flux with deniers and sadistics. 

Graphs are as graphic as candles are explosive

in the wrong hands.

Between fanny fumes and parliamentary lies

I've been knocked right off my axis... 

... somewhere in row Z I'm floating around 

with barely a chance of hanging on to something, 

barely even a collision. 

I've essentially evaporated

and it's all your bloody fault, VagBo. 

There you go. 

A mental image for these spurious times.