UNDIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

Wrote this a while back. Doesn't stop being relevant. This guy ... the king of nothing matters ...

UNDIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY

This will all end happily,

As everything has done for me

From birth to school to public life

This world’s the butter -  I’m the knife.

This will all go swimmingly

Like everything involved with me

The dirt flows off, to god knows where,

I’ve never been inclined to care.

Indulgence brought impunity –

Each crime an opportunity

To line my stomach, free from shame,

Play dumb, accept no crumb of blame.

The hubris of a flattered child

Will not allow that I’m reviled –

My self-regard survives, unharmed,

I feel charming, I am charmed.

For I have set the people free

From red tape and bureaucracy

And still, the ingrates chirp and chide –

Their dull despair my point of pride.

In time, those left in the lurch will

Grasp that I’m their circus Churchill -

All my shames and falls and slips

By rote-learnt rhetoric eclipsed.

I’ve dodged or charged from post to post

Pursued, not caught, by bitter ghosts,

Of love and war and money lost,

For mine to spend is theirs to cost.

There is an alternative draft –

I made a joke and no one laughed

I owned up when the fault was mine

I had the honour to resign.

My face was gaunt and stained with shame,

I realised this was not my game

but people’s lives and nation’s fate

I realised it a day too late.

I took that draft, made sure it burned,

At once, my ripened hue returned.

For I have set the people free

From ever being rid of me.