FRACTURES: OUR SOLE SURVIVOR?

So – like an interminable drone

of phone-on-hold muzak –

Right Honourable member for Potemkin West,

you were kept, from one Handcock-up to the next

hanging on by your lizard fingertips.

In the build-back-better days to come

you shall not be remembered,

even as Bozo’s useful monkey.

Rather your ‘mate’ down the pub –

grown fat on the contract

you slipped him under the counter –

will reconsider.

Come to think

your brain, your past, your skin

and your future to be

the colour and consistency

of stale wallpaper paste.

And, after all, about as much use.

vi. 2021

FRACTURES