Sunday, 2 February 2025

jobs for the cowboys


decretum apotheosis

did his mother bear
him the Juliis
hardly of this world
godheads on dimes

Virgil spun em well
traced their lineage
back to Priam smell
blood on the page

cos adoption counts
young Octavian
to Augustus mounts
Olympian

Orientalists
voting two to one
Superman exists
bargain was done

thus to deify
D as president
all you need’s a why
not argument



unofficial portrait

might
ve said you had a singsong voice
if yr needle wasn’t getting stuck
every time that’s all I’m saying Duck
give us some choice

go & see a man about a dog
Christ’s sake you caught them bones all around
shocking cliché innit pound for pound
croaking of frog

Aristophanes was Plato’s chum
mordant killjoy of a bloke they wrote
Socrates’ obituaries note
ruler of thumb

Tom that is which you should read one fine
night or hey whenever work allows
maybe after Godley’s milked the cows
blessing the wine

here’s a riddle no a muddle D
we’re too old they got us by the balls
running after spinsters sporting shawls
biscuits & tea



without prejudice

otherwise politically correct
anti-simianites deserve this test
stuff their carcasses with owl manuscript
curses out of Egypt

burn the guts pickle eyes in Kilner jars
stage a show trial on the journey to Mars
gotta entertain the public at large
Madness versus Barça

state their crimes in terms everybody lives
off & on an owl Victorian wiz
bang it’s roller coasting savvy now giz
up that other business

talking Ivor League & the Oxbridge Chump
sponsors to duckbilled platitudes of Trump
sorry for them vegans left on the stump
you too Rumpy-Pumpy

monkey man you’re owed an apology
standing on my shoulder reach for your treat
peanut says thank you for forgiving me
accusation’s evil



fair shares for all

Auschwitz child you got me there
short & curlies hologram
zooming kiddies going spare
who gives a damn

surely was the greatest crime
Sherlock hung his hat & said
nothing there’s no rhyme
reason is dead

but for Gaza now the West
Bank still occupied enough
Jews already not your best
moment this stuff

victims’ victims innocent
no except the children who’ll
always have the time they spent
pining for school

ethnic cleansing genocide
like the walls of Jehrico
fall through holes no one can hide
anywhere you’d go 

No What Am Saying!


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