Wednesday 23 August 2017

I have a poem in Three Drops from a Cauldron

I'm very excited to have a poem Lulled in this months' Three Drops from a Cauldron

https://threedropspoetry.co.uk/2017/08/23/three-drops-from-a-cauldron-issue-18-august-2017/

Saturday 12 August 2017

Wordmongering

Wordmongering
Perhaps Potus No45 is overcompensating for his impotence, which he projects as importance
saying his arsenal is more powerful and far stronger than ever before. It’s very powerful.
And to ensure that the world believes him, he threatens Kim Jong Un with fire and fury,
while Fox and friends prefer to comment on his domestic feuds with nuclear wordplay:

Senators learn the hard way about the fallout from turning on Trump

We watch the war of words escalate.
Incendiary rhetoric at a rate
of 140 characters per shot

U.S. Pacific Command assures us that
#USAF B-1B Lancer #Bombs on Guam
stand ready to fulfil USFK’s #FlightTonight Mission
-          If called upon to do so.

@realDonaldTrump tweets that military solutions are now fully in place
locked and loaded. The Armada may or may not be steaming
to the Peninsula, very powerful, a very powerful presence,
a very prudent deterrent. There’s going to be big big trouble.
Secretly we’re not sure if he knows his arsenal from his covfefe
and we joke, nervously, about child-proof locks on his satchel,
the President’s ubiquitous football.

We ponder whether his pants are on fire due to strategic lies
or idiot blunder.  
We wonder if he could he trash talk us into war
or is this an irrational fear?

As a precaution leaflets given to
the residents of Guam warn
Do not to look at the flash or the fireball –
 it can blind you!

He’s blasé. He says:
‘Hopefully it’ll all work out.
Lots of good things can happen.’

Well, I suspect he’s been talking to Mrs May
about plans to visit the UK
because blundering Boris said he’d love to emulate
the tweeting style of his American mate
and while North Koreans test nuclear bombs
 we only threatened to show him our bums.


© Spangle McQueen 12 August 2017