Picaroon

I am delighted to have my poem Reality TV  included in Picaroon #11
Thanks to Kate Garrett-Neild

https://picaroonpoetry.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/picaroon-poetry-issue-11-november-2017/

Dwell Collective

I am excited to have my poem in Dwell Collective's zine on display this weekend as part of an installation at Plymouth Arts Centre. Check it out

https://www.facebook.com/dwellcollectiveart/posts/408878762878417

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/

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

Dan and Pan

I’m blotto

Boiled as an owl

Half-shot

Half-screwed

Lit up like the Commonwealth

And loaded to the muzzle

I’m pie-eyed and over the bay

You say my valve is barely open

That I’m a dirty yellow shade

But I’ll have you know neat whiskey was poured over

This lobster

And I’m ablaze with a blue flame, my friend.

Three Drops from a Cauldron

My poem For Liz about the lovely Liz Ferrets has been published in the Three Drops from a Cauldron Imbolc 2017 edition

http://www.lulu.com/shop/kate-garrett/three-drops-from-a-cauldron-imbolc-2017/paperback/product-23047330.html