icing on the cack

 some hard knocks a god has sent 

 others folk brought on themselves 

 how remote the tribes have grown 

 out of control 

Buck Palace on hold

bit less wandering abroad for him

down the kitchen eats his humble spam

do-nots dunked in steaming mugs of gin

tramp's trouble ban

got the wife & kiddie in for free

all-inclusive residence such fun

bingeing House of Cards Reality

chump's catchup plan

cats can look at queens on live TV

who needs horse & carriage rides for spin

change the mudguards exercise free wheels

champ's double chin

chuck a spanner in the works old chum

Gatsby partied with as much aplomb

played roulette with the Russians & won

chimp's barrel bomb

armchair leaders do it all on-line

snooty safety shots & twos-in-one

turn the tables in their own good time

chap rambles on

peak death troll

where the need to tackle bigger trees

stumbles under the Hillary Step

brothers scramble over playground walls

preach from the top

education ain't what terror breeds

pale sarcasms quipped from lips to hips

mostly it's the drill of warning bells

gun laws of cops

if they want to level playing fields

Everest's the place to do the drop

make their marks from Tibet to Nepal

exes on maps

social climbers bigots thick with thieves

blow yourselves to kingdom come that's up

say yr prayers & get off straight to hell

reach from the top

a tax on freedom

only London Bridge ain't falling down

bowler hats are found on foreign folks

tourists swarming in & out of jobs

bombers get one

messages in bottles duck & bob

condoms dive or swim in greasy shoals

lovers drown their woes or buck the blonde

bombshell gets John

buses ponder trains express & car

sharing taxis über alles throb

under smog as cyclists waft & weave

Bombay gets on

Zepplins come & go while kiddies watch

doodle bugs exploding cats & dogs

Cockney sparrows live or die the same

bomb sites get sun

rue no words what's said is done get up

face the future mourn the dead get on

ride the turning tide by letting go

bombers get none

ignored to death

scores in London seldom reach a score

Mosul town in contrast counts its dead

weekly by the hundred though this news

breaks fewer hearts

Paris got its share the other year

plotting hits on websites over deaths

Kabul's totals show the same reverse

breakdown of hearts

Berlin Brussels Madrid & Marseilles

all have trended online & on air

while Aleppo Homs & Istanbul

break lonely hearts

life is cheaper there in Twitter shares

Facebook likes & global reportage

while attacks on allied tribes & friends

break bigger hearts

life is cheaper too in business terms

dollars get you more than local bills

when the trouble settles down let's go
break a few hearts

smoking chimney

not for me to call a minaret

phallic but that Mosul one the old

Turk had built has rent the warp & weft

cloaking this earth

bricks & mortar billowed out on faith

weaving arabesques & tearing silk

ravished maidens put up such a fight

scathing of myths

Buddha blown up vast on canvas flaps

mothers tied in sacks to die at stakes

legal minds struck off by men in masks

god ain't that great

flesh & blood by sticks & stones defamed

rich man poor man bugger-all man thief

those who killed their names in flames to score

thousands of wives

sling no more ye friends of caliph hate

idol-blinded effigies of breath

running scared or facing down your fate

worship ye death

- Archie Locost