Saturday, 16 September 2023

Z

 


[Z]

 

Z is for Folly. Z is for Blindness.

The president who acts thus plays the Fool.

His walk-on has Kyiv in its sights, like cool.

A walk gone zigzag, stranger to kindness.

 

Laugh at him, he’ll shoot you out of the skies,

a streak of Z flames for no good reason.

You question his script? So, what’s your poison?

All in the delivery, zillions of lies.

 

Z too, was class clown turned president

inheritor of the oblast Wormwood

inventor of the stunt where he dams the gash

knows it’s for keeps, infinite incidents

go nowhere fast as only farces could

stare at the end, the Z, the dead, the crash.


Image: ST(Z)P WAR. Graffiti in Shoreditch High Street, London, made by Matt Brown and posted here at The Londonist: https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/ukraine-street-art 

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