Friday 13th
December 19, 2019
For me be witness all the saints of God
Here is a man who’s lightly slighted woman's love
Not once, perhaps, perchance it is his way of life,
A man unequal to love's constancy?
Here is the same, for shame, guest in Myanmar
Delighting on reciting Kipling; his ambassador
Abrupt with chiding remonstrates and shakes with pain
Stings “inappropriate”, but cannot so contain
Bluff, rustic antics on a public dais
All courtesy of welcome unaccepted unashamed
This man of Public Office revelling agawp
At “natives” celebrating in time-honoured guise
A serving Foreign Minister this blubber lump
Our representative, accomplished man of parts
His shame, our shame, his heart considered ours
Stands blandly unrepentant and maintains a farce
Then him again, again in Public Office, broad daylight
Disparaging the Africas, again by pompous sleight
Dismissing “bongo-bongo-land” as of no great regard
A lawbreaker, one found against; a liar in Hansard
And more, a turncoat wastrel; sensitive as anthracite
A temerous bon viveur, a conscience with no agenbyte
His oratory nonsense; and his policy a fright
No sooner is proclaimed than is profaned outright
He laughs, a party-puppet would-be-puppeteer
Deceit deceived; conceit up to the ears
A troll for a wig and stole Establishment
Elected leader; connected super-tramp