Saturday, 4 June 2022

jubilee celebrations ~ musing on the retrotards

 jubilee celebrations 

a musing on the retrotards


celebrations

the war planes roar over truth

in reformations of colour


the x gun salute

bangs it home


the guards

guard it well

the truth about war


the flags

the bunting fluttering

over an empire 

that is over


the cathedrals 

where the establishment

establish


the hoi polloi 

gravitate to salivate

at the gates of lies

for here lays

lord help us

who owned it all

but here you will not lie

will you


the honours

for they who want no honours

but are honoured


the palaces

where the populace lean upon

the continuity of mystery


the medals

dear god they are wearying 


so many

such proficiency 

is killing me


the ubiquitous 

uniformity

of uniforms

even the clergy

are cloying


the scions of scions

in retrograde gravitate

around the continuity of preference

from which a mountebank builds

a costermonger’s cartful

of the orchards of desire


why are we

so gullible 

is it hereditary 

or heraldry

answer me


why am i off

to the tower


off with his head

for he had the temerity to think 

the unthinkable 



don’t you dare think









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