Saturday, 23 July 2016

Pass the Popcorn, Please! (A ballade)

A poem from 2016

Watch me perform it on YouTube...

Watch those suckers fighting!
They devour each other every day
They claim to be uniting
Pressurised to stay
While desperate to get away
Crawling crimson knuckles and knees
Relish the internecine fray
Pass the popcorn, please!

Brothers, sisters, biting!
Politicking power play
Pledged allegiance owing
Fragile oneness, come what may
Half-mast the red flags barely sway
In the gently blowing breeze
Watch the acid shower spray
Pass the popcorn, please!

Nuclear winter approaching!
Observing the Hell to pay
Blood and bones displaying
Hominid puree
Do you wish you could replay
And make the time we squandered freeze?
With horror and dismay we say
Pass the popcorn, please!

So crack open the Beaujolais!
Discard for once our heart's disease
Sit beside me, interplay
Pass the popcorn, please!

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