WESTMINSTER PALACE (AFTER A.A. MILNE) - 181221

WESTMINSTER PALACE (After A.A. Milne)

The unchanging old guard at Westminster Palace

The country's in uproar because of that Boris

Except for the readers of Daily Express

"Who keep saying I'm a roaring success"

                                             Says Boris

The unchanging old guard at Westminster Palace

All of their headlines are written by Boris

Boris has had his incompetence starred

"A Prime Minister's life is terribly hard"

                                             Says Boris

The unchanging old guard at Westminster Palace

Another big scandal involving that Boris

They still think he's great for acting the fool

"Underestimation is such a great tool"

                                             Says Boris

The unchanging old guard at Westminster Palace

Even his own side don't think much of Boris

"I gave them big parties despite all the rules"

"Back then they all acted like they'd won the pools"

                                             Says Boris

The unchanging old guard at Westminster Palace

Everything 'bout him is total artifice

"Alexander Boris dePfeffer Johnson's the name"

"But playing the ordinary Joes is this game"

                                             Says Boris

The unchanging old guard at Westminster Palace

Lining his pockets and lying to your face

"It really doesn't matter how often I've lied"

"I really don't care how many have died"

                                             Says Boris

MAWH - 181221 (After A.A. Milne)

NEW VERSE!!!

The Unchanging old guard at Westminster Palace

Everything’s fine according to Boris

Ah, but what about that David Frost?

“There was nothing gained but then nothing lost”

                                             Says Boris

(They practically write themselves)

BOZO

BOZO

Allexpendable
Bozo
deFarquwit
Johnsodyou

I wouldn’t trust him

To run a bath

MAWH, 290520

FUDGE & BUMBLE

FUDGE & BUMBLE

Fudge & bumble 

Bumble & fudge

Deflect the story

With an unwise nudge

Bumble & fudge

Fudge & bumble

Don’t expect numbers

To start to tumble

Fog & bluster
Bluster & fog
We need digital
You're still analogue

Bluster & fog
Fog & bluster
Why not admit
It's a total cluster

Fudge & bumble 

Bumble & fudge

You know what’s needed

Why don’t you budge

Bumble & fudge

Fudge & bumble

We think you’re

A total dumbbell

Fog & bluster
Bluster & fog
More of a poodle
Than a British bulldog

Bluster & fog
Fog & bluster
Despite what you think
You're simply lacklustre

MAWH, 28-290520

TOGETHER

TOGETHER

The world changes quickly

I’m prepared to display

Pragmatical acceptance

But I don’t have to like it

My fundamental worry

Is that unpleasantness

Becomes the new normality

But I don’t have to do it

I hang on to my belief

That people do much better

If they all work together

But some no longer want it

Rebuilding all those bridges

From shattered relationships

Community connections

We have to work to keep it

This brave new world

Living with the fallout

Of divisive behaviour

Maybe we’ll learn to loathe it

Putting it back together

With pound shop sticking plaster

This is the new normality

Maybe we’ll learn to love it

MAWH, 310120

BRINK

BRINK

We stand on the dawn

Of a timid new age

Fuelled by a cauldron

Of hostility and rage

In the name of a freedom

Locked ourselves in a cage

We stand on a brink

Where flag-waving fools

Cause warm hearts to sink

Whilst people become tools

Hope chooses not to think

When blind satisfaction rules

We stand at the edge

For some bitter change

Where losing is winning

In a world made so strange

Making the win everything

At a cost so deranged

We live in an age

Of anger and doubt

So quick to outrage

Whether for in or for out

Your race, youth or age

Causes the others to shout

We stand near the end

Of a bitter lost fight

Where friend turns on friend

Under cover of spite

What will the dawn bring

From a long cold last night

MAWH, 300120

A WORLD

A WORLD

I do not want
To live in a world
Full of hatred
Bigotry
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Xenophobia -
My grandparents
Lived there -
They wanted
Something better
For us

MAWH, 301019

MARR PATEL

MARR PATEL

We apologise for
The reckless sin
Of not recognising
Your rictus grin

Turned out it was
A harmless smirk
At the expense of those
Who may lose work

But even to suggest
That you might laugh
Was quite absurdly
A ridiculous gaffe

For we all know

That face so stony

Often fails to betray

Those thoughts so phoney

Unless of course

You're prone to mock

Anyone who ends up

Behind key and lock

Yet your eyes might twinkle

At a barely hidden hope

You'll get to bring back

That savage hemp rope

MAWH, 231019

A GIT IN A SUIT

A GIT IN A SUIT

One thing is certain -
In general
The public
Are suckers for
A git in a suit

MAWH, 211019

Watched "The Big Short" on Sunday.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Because...

People are still suckers
For a git in a suit

and...

Gits in suits
Gits in suits
Take your pennies
Won't leave any
Gits in suits

PM SAUCE

PM SAUCE

HP Sauce

Number 10 source

Tantrums because

Way off course

He's not getting his

Own way of course

Wants to force

Others to endorse

With no remorse

A messy divorce

But not just over

His PM sauce (yuk!)

MAWH, 081019

RESET BUTTON

RESET BUTTON

It's as if some people want

A great big shiny reset button
To get back a lost world

That they never really had

It bewilders me each day
What they think they’re getting

In their far from brave old world

So shameful and unpleasant

Some talk of a lost Empire

As if that contained no shame

Perhaps in some commonwealth mixup

Of whatever they think that means

All those freedoms hard gained

Some thought would remain forever

Fresh hope-filled new tolerances

Now in such precarious doubt

There are those who would go further

Time-travelling all the way back
To lung-scraping Victorian values
All rickets, poverty and desperation

Their tall-hatted superiority screams

Bring back the tugging of forelocks

The unworthy lauding the have lots

Whilst unjustly ignoring the have nots

Some believe in all sincerity

That the cold uncaring world

Will fall over to work with us 

Simply due to who we once were

As the worthwhile dies screaming

Freedoms are sold so easily away
But you know Captain F*cktastic
Will try and push it through anyway

It's as if some people want

A great big shiny reset button
To get back to a lost world

That they never ever had

MAWH, Oct 2019

EUROPE

EUROPE

Checking a box
Knowing full well
That Europe isn't perfect

Yet...

Realising it felt
Better working together
To try fixing it from within

MAWH, 120919

RIGHTS AND WRONGS

RIGHTS AND WRONGS

Maybe you're right
Maybe I'm wrong
Enough of you think it
I might tag along

But...

What if you're wrong
Supposing I'm right
I'm not trying to rile you
Or start up a fight

But..

What if you're right
I might be quite wrong
If that is the case
I might change my song

But...

Supposing I'm right
Perhaps you're quite wrong
By agreeing to differ
Could we still get along

But...

You could be quite right
I might be quite wrong
I hope I'd accept that
And still remain strong

But...

Maybe you're wrong
Maybe I'm right
Could we shake hands
As the world turns to shite


MAWH, 120919

YELLOWHAMMER

YELLOWHAMMER

Being lectured at
By the kind of numpty
Who claims we were all
Never healthier than when
There were ration books

But whose grandfather was
An opportunistic Spiv
Who had a lockup full
Of black market hooch
And made a killing

MAWH, 120919

PROJECT FEAR

PROJECT FEAR

My fears
Are not "Project Fear"
But actual fears
I had
Before I even voted

My fears
Are some of
The reasons I voted
The way I did
When I did

My fears
Were already there
Before any reports
Were written
Or even published

My fears
Are my fears
And should never be
Dismissed, ignored
Or forgotten

My fears
Are always there
That reason will fall
And the
Bullies will win

My fears
Are my fears
They belong to me
And no-one else
Can claim them

MAWH, 120919

TORLEKS

TORLEKS

AR-MOUR PLA-TED TY-RANTS
IN I-VOR-Y TOW-ERS
BARK OUT THEIR OR-DERS
TO THE UN-DER-CLA-A-A-A-A-SS

Rest of us -
We ALL Ogrons Now

BUFFOONISH NUT

BUFFOONISH NUT

Would that there were someone
With the chutzpah, bravery and zeal
Of Woodward and Bernstein
Or a Pilger or a Foot

To examine the words and actions
Lies and machinations reveal
Exposing the sheer deceit
Of this buffoonish nut

MAWH, 030919

I DON’T KNOW

I DON'T KNOW

I don’t know 

It makes no sense to me 

But some seem to think

it’s the best thing ever

So what do I know

Other than I can’t sleep

Due to being anxious 

For the now lost country 

I used to know

MAWH, August 2019

NUMBER TEN

NUMBER TEN

I didn't sleep last night because

Of oppressive heat

Thunderclaps

And lightning bolts

I know I won't sleep tonight because

As I'm dozing off

I'll remember

Boris is in number ten

MAWH, 240719

PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

Parliamentary democracy

May not be perfect

But it's the best thing we've got

And is far better than

The person holding the biggest stick

Beating up the vulnerable

To get their own way

Because they can

(A quick poem on the day we seem to get both)

MAWH, 240719

BORIS DAY

BORIS DAY

It's a laaarrrf innit...?
To vote for this prick
It's a game you see...?
We're just taking the pee
It's a hoot we were 'aving
So why aren't you all laffin'...?
We were making a joke
By selectin' this bloke
So then we chose him again
What d'you mean he's PM...?

MAWH, JULY 23, 2019