Wednesday 14 February 2024

Poem (16): Clearing up the mess, the mess


I'm not sure this is terribly good, but contains a couple of phrases that amuse me.

Clearing up the mess, the mess

I have come to love the gangsters of pitilessness -

with their courteous knives and their speechwriters

you met in a Clapham bar in 2004,

getting the titles and plots of films wrong

looking askance like you owed them a drink -

 

I have come to love the lights out of them

eventually, for what else is there to do -

as they sledgehammer printing presses

in the name of growth and utility,

after all, we were the ones who failed to practise penalty shoot outs -

 

yes, what else is there left on this rebounding earth

but to love their sternly empty lectures & inept grasp of history

since they were on their bike and entrepreneurial

and we were watching late night poker

while eating pistachios in the bath, and they advise us

 

as they recongeal more righteous and new than ever

to wrap ourselves in foil and buy a new kettle

for our rusty oligarch yachts for which we overpaid

because we were lazy fools

who were holding Britain back.


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