Another day

In the news today

Another make the bosses pay

Another throw that precious item out

Another have you seen our clout?

Another tale of failure and

Pen-pushers paid to take away

And here’s another day of making something up

And someone, somewhere, feeding it

And someone, somewhere, giving up

Another saying they will not

Some parliamentary member is

An out-of-town investor taking other people’s bets

No, not (quite) patriot by proxy

But a freaky backbench tosspot

Waving signatures as threats

Oh, here’s the Labour Leader busy

Hedging everybody’s bets

Get set: another deselection

#notacult, sir, no sir, gotcha –

Just revoltingly inspired

Heard the Gidiot’s been hired

But the BoJo still has not been fired

Here’s another nasty headline

With another demographic victim

For a witless press inspection

And some ill-informed presenter

Whose researcher went with

What the hell ol’ Blighty’s plastic patriots dreamt up last night

But wait: incoming fright thank Christ

There is that time delay

Swampmonster from across the Pond is now awake

And I’ve already had as much today as I can take…

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Unicornucopia

Unicornucopia
Horn of plenty
A shitload of promise
But it’s always empty

A bus and a yacht and a sharp-nosed jet
And a blue passport are as good as it gets
In the land of milk and honey
Where the hope is all sunny for
Controlling our borders, our laws and our money

Weep because it’s pitiful and laugh because it’s funny
How the upper lip is stiff but the follow-through is runny

Be Love

Witness Love
be
and build bandwagons
as beacons.

Even Brexit can’t eat itself

Most Brexiteers are frustrated to find their designs meeting with constant and apparently unforeseen difficulties. Having purposefully narrowed, thickened, diluted and padded the national discourse with poison and wish potions; having pushed and pulled and bullied and blackmailed the agents until all available options are made completely unpalatable and untenable to all sides, they are all over the ether expressing their solemnities and indignations on discovering that their elastirigid red lines are, indeed, universally indigestible.

Many Brexiteers seem so frustrated by the complicated, expensive, risky, time-consuming nature of their futility as to be now acknowledging that the Brexit that they and the other seventeen point four million somehow indivisibly want is really not beneficially possible but, because they are wholly insistent that wanting it badly enough means that it surely must be possible, they still prefer to dig their heels in instead of sensibly addressing all of the demonstrable and connected whys it isn’t. This is because it would mean them having to not just give up, give over, give in but to openly accept and express that staying in the European Union and engaging in shaping it so that it fits and suits us better is not only necessary but pragmatic and even somewhat desirable‬.

The best way that Brexiteers could both save some face and save the UK would be for them to start acknowledging the democratic, no-brainer merit in passing the final say back to the people. Then, when tangible sense is returned and brightens our horizon, Brexiteers can pretend to be the vanquished valiant and spend their public lives saying “if” a lot or they can fade into the graceful obscurity that they will not have earned but that the rest of us will certainly deserve..

Daily Flail

How they missed the cheery old complacency;

Yearned for yesterday’s mild indifference.

Return now sought in wild, downward punches,

Some held their mouths agape,

In hope of an open goal.

Good Beltane

Fertile

Filling

Salamanders

Full of

Willing

Waxing

Line

And circle

Gelling

Belly

Swelling

Life arising

Coupled

Growing

Strong

And supple

Green

Uncurling

Ideas

Burning

Sparking

Kindled

     *

New is

Bursting

Through

And forth

And out

And up

In longing

Unto

Gentle rain

And nearing

Sun

As flowering

Is quickening

        *

Exhilaration

Come

     ***

[2014]