Home Thoughts From Abroad In The EU

Last night I woke up at four o'clock and couldn't get back to sleep because there were all these lines of original verse entering my head, which I was powerless to stop. An hour later I got up, made myself a cup of tea and put everything that was in my head down on paper. (Then I went back to bed and slept for another four hours.) So, having tipped my hat to Robert Browning, Clifford T Ward and Dylan Thomas (but not to the present UK government) this is the result:-


Home Thoughts From Abroad In The EU

With the dimming of the faulty Albion light
PM Boris has ignored our plight
But then I hate my country, so a commenter said
On social media for the living dead.

With the dimming of the faulty Albion light
Who else is there has ignored out plight?
The purveyor of standards, the BBC,
That beacon of objectivity!

With the dimming of the faulty Albion light
There are hedge fund managers who express delight
At the falling pound. They don't give a shit
If our savings and pensions sink with it.

With the dimming of the faulty Albion light
They do not go gentle into that good night,
Each crashing out like a raging bull
And their intestines now are more than full.

But when I peer into a crystal ball
I see a poorly assembled cabinet fall
And the Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Express,
Their reputations trashed, oh yes! 


© Geoff Davis 2019