When the Dogs Bite

Wednesday, 20 November 2024

29th November 2024

frozen snow

treacherous roads

training cancelled

It's just a matter of perspective.

If the Governor of Texas

wants to offer a 10K bounty

on any transwoman challenged in a bathroom,

while stroking his cock on live TV;

or Congresswoman Nancy Mace

introduces a bill to bar Congresswoman Sarah McBride

from going to the toilet

it's just a matter of perspective.

And if Insta user Venuspeenis

wants her followers to kill JK Rowling

for promoting her transphobia

when she could be asking people to Keep Britain Tidy

or Stop Domestic Violence

then it's just a matter of perspective.

Putin threatens nuclear war,

Sweden goes on full war alert

and Biden approves using anti-personnel mines,

by all means focus on transwomen;

it's just a matter of perspective.

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

19th November 2024

falling snow

the world covered in a blanket

electric warmth

The only game my father played

was Cribbage, with a pack of cards

he brought home from National Service;

the three of clubs forever marked

by a cigarette burn and the Queen of Hearts

by a torn-off top corner.

Fifteen-two, Fifteen-four;

six for a threesome

and one for His Knob

which I always found hilarious.

Monday, 18 November 2024

18th November 2024

frosty morning

under a blue sky

pluming breath

Biden allows Ukraine to fire missiles

into the heart of the Russian homeland

Both sides know they only have six weeks

before Russia wins by default.

Is there a last chance to mobilise Russian civilians

to perform a coup on the Putin's dictatorship?

Probably not, but it'll all end in tears

and the genocide of the Ukrainian people.

Sunday, 17 November 2024

17th November 2024

sunshine

behind wispy clouds

no trousers error

Russian civilians

murdered by Russian veterans

over two hundred in a year

and their murderers are set free

because they've already served time

by fighting in Ukraine.

The victims are mostly women;

raped, beaten and killed with impunity

and their attackers are usually criminals

released from prison to serve in the war.

Trump has vowed to end the war in Ukraine

as soon as he is invested in January,

but the way he'll do it is evil:

No more support for Ukraine

and American troops in Russian squads.

Saturday, 16 November 2024

16th November 2024

full moon

swirling her skirts about

dull morning

America

moves into the number one spot

with republican nominations

Number One in Patient Zero outbreaks

Number One in child death rates

(thanks to anti-vaccination policies)

and Number One

in the funerals for non-republicans.

Friday, 15 November 2024

15th November 2024

barking dog

racing down the garden

last apples

the guy in front of me

at the supermarket checkout

is having a Big Night In.

A jar of instant curry,

two minute rice and a home-bake nan,

a bottle of gin, two of tonic

and two four-packs of Stella.

There must be boxing on the telly

or maybe a sportsball match,

but either way, thirty quid at the till

is cheaper than the pub.

Thursday, 14 November 2024

14th November 2024

traces of blue

behind fast-scudding clouds

fading moon

British officers of the

Queen’s Royal Hussars

dressed in Nazi uniforms

give the Roman salute.

"Just for Halloween," they claim

but it mush have taken a long time

to source those detailed replicas.

They should be disgracefully discharged

then they go join the American forces instead.