Elizabeth will be dead
‘fore HS2 opens –
Charles’ll become king
of a state long broken
…/
Elizabeth will be dead
‘fore HS2 opens –
Charles’ll become king
of a state long broken
…/
Your Queen is dead –
Long live your King
until you shove him
on your guillotine’s
carved collar …/
‘Admired for his deathbed performance’
& ‘infamous in his time for his life’ – two
lines of internet biography ensnare his
three decades of verve
…/
Your brief candle will light
my abdication – write it down
Please – remove my crown
before its weight crushes me… /
The small streets of Windsor
are sparkling today –
it helps that the homeless
were moved on their way …/
I do not believe
in anything I read,
apart from the stutters
of rhymed poetry:
I will kneel down
to fix the any-things..