https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56145492
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
