money squawks
just titanic when
5 adventurers
grab the headlines from
5 refugees
quite ironic too
how the depth of high
life engulfs the rich
trumps to the poor
the iconic few
versus did I say
5 yes all aboard
kids going down
gin & tonics or
sips from plastic cups
famous lasts at least
crushing is quick
aye the tragic 5
beats another 5
hundred give or take
these are the breaks
goodbye Mr Chits
folks bewail it but democracy
soldiers on when unfit rulers die
Caesar by others’ hands Atatürk
drank himself dry
Hovis too has sacks of enemies
populism’s Comeback Kid they ain’t
yet but time is on their side they might
still become Saint
Gee a force for sumpin least the bad
hair brigade’ve scored a champion now
maybe cross the pond they’ll find a new
home for their show
they and Princess Whatstheirface the new
Stan & Oily garths or queens of dragged
through a privet backwards screaming blue
murder type lags
social democrats beware them white
minstrels got some clever tricks no black
balls can spoil their ballots bounders
just
don’t give a frack
Hovis ain’t brown
bread
bold Odysseus lost
all those men
woe betide such fools
as took his side
drowned or gobbled up by Cyclops trans
formed into swine
nothing’s down for them besides their
parts
acted out in poësy portrayed
on mosaics or as extras paid
off by the day
never stick your hands up boys & girls
sleep with Ithaca’s elite in fields
not the palace Troy was sacked with more
mercy he yields
only when the gods have raised their brows
will Athena save you nay your match
staged for necrophiliacs who crunch
nuts as they watch
bold Odysseus to give the man
half his due the individual
has their place in this imperfect world
leave him a goal
how now POW wow
when their time had
come
summonsed to enlist
wore the uniform
didn’t resist
never volunteered
shunned that kind
of twist
drowned their qualms
in beer
should they exist
taken prisoner
shackled hand o’er
fist
shall we treat em fair
smiley or pissed
share like hearth &
home
with the antichrist
Wagner’s on the
phone
gonna insist
this Amerikar
bring on spouse & kids
Liberty like yah
free to the heist
Swindler’s Lift
It would be the heist of the twentieth
century, a long game lasting twelve years before the perpetrators were hunted
down, liquidated, ticked off or lost to the chaos of war. Pifflesquate
remarked, in the crass squalor of their glee,
The opportunity to play this character’s
too great to miss, a once in a lifetime opp. Where’s me cozzie?
hard act to follow
Hovis was a fibber Blair
too told blatant lies but kills
count for more so what’s the score
thousands to nil
getting Brexit done or half
baked more like when Covid struck
Pan’s pandemic came unstuck
hardly a laugh
thousands died but not because
Hovis caught a chill they sneezed
yes with others copped a dose
dropped to their knees
aye they partied folks would whine
shame on them the hypocrite
lost their job & paid a fine
easily but
Putin only has to quote
Tony on Saddam Husein
for the cheek to score the most
points on Ukraine
the intelligence of stones
time has passed the test it set itself
up as umpire once the human mind
let it loose across the universe
therefore a blind
algorithm cutting paths through space
bouncing like a 3D pinball up
down & round the hidden bends of black
holes to be cup
winner there’s the treble in the bag
only trouble left us far behind
fiddling with the mother ship’s controls
those & the wind
solar wind that is you get my drift
mastering the galaxy we tripped
half its fuses now to put things straight
all hands on deck
gotta shed some ballast throw them stones
overboard ignore their screams they feel
nothing just display the rules of rhyme
rhythm & doubt
ravin@68
toe the line of duty Babe
pay yourself a compliment
step aside & make believe
future’s for rent
all the rides you ever rode
put them out to grass you said
running races on the side
fever’s gone dead
cryogenically freeze
sickness till one break of day
presto hey the cure is here
time to awake
sell yourself a dozen years
more not less & this is how
pledge your house then take the plunge
mortgage the now
sign your name draw up some plans
think of all the friends you’ll make
plus the memories no fake
safe in our hands
sex on The City
more indecent gross
markets opened last
year than in the whole
decade before
paid illicit sex
crime experienced
soaring growth despite
falling returns
boys accepted less
men demanded more
this while kiddie porn
bucked its decline
now investors hope
females will reverse
years of negative
growth to relaunch
strictly pervert life
styles protection free
trading on police
silence no tax
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