Thursday, 11 September 2025

11th September 2025

 


Charlie Kirk shot dead

What terrible news to hear!

British deadpan face


© Rachel Green September 2025


And when my mother died, the neighbours called

to show their sympathy, and thus revealing

to be generous in poverty, appalled 

at Britain's Fascist front appealing

to the nation's post-war boom of kids

to usher in a wave of Backing Britain pride

and handing out a shiny badge amidst

the racist rhetoric of Enoch Powell's side.

During the war she'd laboured long and hard

in Tyneside factories to aid the fight

and make munitions for Allied men to guard

our shores against the threat of Axis might.

 She would be saddened now to find another rise

 in xenophobic Saint George flags from lampposts flied.


© Rachel Green September 2025


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