Jesters of the Universe
February 13, 2021
The daffodils are punching well above their weight this year
The snow has been exemplary in evidence
Last evening was the coldest we were told for ten long winters
(Thank God, it will be warmer now, till 2031!)
Our vaccine products are world beaters; masterclass
Researchers, make this country power to the fore
The world’s impressive foremost immunisers
Plus track and trace – (this counts; announces brilliant BBC;
Always a global leader in this science century
Bringing to eager beavers comprehensive news
All that one needs to know, though goodness why indeed
We listeners should be told of petty cheap EU
Intolerable reprisals made on us as sheer revenge…
Clearly the EU’s not world-class, perhaps nor never shall
Now that we’ve left it….
...world-class only in its spineless lack of sense
Poor proud unspotted Britain, this unhappy breed of men…..
[...and on, and on, and so forth, murmuring leal surrealist views…])
The best, above the rest, stand Albion’s academics
Leicester, world-beaters in those post-colonial vibes
Ring-leader worriers of peculiar histories
Come scratching out the past,
A woeful, beat yourself up, ’cause all’s foregone, curriculum
Making a point to disappoint whatever point one’s making
Disjoint it, and then class it, also schlecht verboten.
Earth-movers surge, are pushing nonsense in the faculties
Top-table own-goal scorers win self-reverential vanity
Spilling all round aloud abounding florid singsong
Clinging to hymn sheets deadbeats twisted to in the seventies
Like chapman fantasists are moved to cry up: “Come away, come buy!”
Their pride’s disguised derisions force dissensions, greatening divides
Denying pasts, by fierce impasse, by faithless fooling
Calumniators of circuses; and yet themselves a circus
Adjudicators of consciences; whose brows would silence God
Iconoclasts of testimony, and yet would fashion facts
Dancers with wolves who feed surmise to social running packs.
Then there’s England’s lorries in their hurries to rush across the water
Getting trussed-up in a world-class parking lot to rust at Dover
Stressed by disgusting tariffs – “foreigners play fair!”:
Always we’re global excellence – are our own best love affair
And government’s a vote well-spent – on ad-lib comedy
Returning back a much off-track attendant tragedy
The foremost and the mother of all (global) parliaments
(Whereby we led the world – into the mess it’s in)
Cannot be matched, no not a despotic patch,
Censorious and nefarious, in its prowling goings on
Under closed wraps; those good-fellows who brought to you
Brexit – maybe are your best friends, perhaps?
Actors, of course, and villainous, switch stilettos hidden
Inside their socks - well practiced in their use to stick a thick
Electorate – whose doom they wooed and wound around and
Lured; made fool desires their downfall
Excellence in subversion of the state, we’ve seen this boom
Lo - only showy curs, the Tory sirs, now hold up silver spoons
Pockets in Cayman Island rackets, get considerations
Or prospects in Eire, somewhat smattering of remunerations
Top of the range strange bedfellows of capital impudence
Slummers with the lotto ticket rabbits; Mammon’s ample givers
Out bounces up a bonus ball - a grab - the Tories have it!
Meanly they clean up on the dreadful pap they published
A people suckered, whimsy-battered, by wide applied pollution
Of reason, adept deception by your propagandist chums
And we are the champions, we, the universal conquerors
Over the earth our magic circulates, aesthetically
There’s the staple business, English football, calls in billions
Of fired up teenage Africans, the hopefuls of the times,
Raises up wannabes of ‘just like mes’ on fragile grounds
That everyone might signify, to play at White Hart Lane
Called by the blurb are those for whom the world goes as you see it
On Google, Facebook, YouTube Fox, RT, and BBC
A cracked refracting lens expounding self-propounding merit -
What the UK vies to be
With a holy commercial corporate sector spirit; dystopi,
Lassoing you lovely people, working voodoo to persuade
By misdirection, leading you into a toy assent,
To go for stature; egregious legerdemain, and surely off the radar
But hunker down, turn yourself round, yes, do yourself
That favour
Turn off the switch, don’t listen, ditch, the clutching poison ivy
That spreads, embeds, as nation’s flavour
Go to your heart, be like the Spartan; brother, sister,
Belong, hold a quiet tongue, as one created on this earth
Make peace with almighty God, and slowly, lowly, down the road
You shall indeed, perceive, receive: accordingly persever
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