When the Dogs Bite

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

15th July 2025

bathroom pull switch

damned fiddly to replace

aching arms

Like Faust before me I have made a choice

to follow not along Fate's woven thread

but look to find my heart and use my voice

to stitch my cotton to another weft instead.

And though the life I wanted veered away

to all the dreams my father came to fear

he took the cheaper seats and chose to stay,

defending honour though it dost him dear.

No son or heir to carry faml'y name

into a future under threat of war

Thatcher's Britain's poverty to blame

the private sale of freedom hard fought for.

unlike that titular hero I will seek not

to untie Mephistophelean knot.

Monday, 14 July 2025

14th July 2025

fourteen hours

a metal shed constructed

one-star review

That thou be blamed is just another proof

for free speech applies only to the right

who bleat and moan that satire is not truth,

and Fascism is one true source of light.

Constitutional citizenship revoked

for criticising Presidential greed

Rosie O'Donnell regrets not that she joked

that campaign vows be honoured is a need.

In Germany, Sebastian Hotz is put

on trial comparing Trump's would-be assassin

to someone who runs to catch the bus

and finds he's unfortunately missing.

Dire consequence imposed upon the left

while Trump supporters kill and rape without regret.

Sunday, 13 July 2025

13th July 2025

day's heat

sliding over the horizon

night walking

Let's ignore the future of the planet Earth

I won't be around to see it anyway

eco 'terrorists' become a source of mirth

they're not concerned with Money For Today.

Nigel wants new strip mines on the fields

where groves of solar panels need to be

the money he is promised soon will yield

and end to 'ugly' wind turbines at sea.

That makes way for extra rigs to gather oil

from sea bed habitats of other critters

but for them he doesn't give a single F at all

they don't give him the kickbacks that he fritters.

He'll also cut the funding for worker's NHS

better to pay private for the best.

‘An enormous scar’: the battle over solar farms and pylons as Reform UK takes aim at net zero

Saturday, 12 July 2025

12th July 2025

first blackberry

a sour taste in my mouth

British politics

With aching hands, my building session done

after only hours two, and reddened

sheets of aluminium, though few or none

of them are screwed into the base and deadened

are my arms with scalpel-sharpened cuts

and fingers stabbed with countless pricks

for though the build-a-shed kit comes with gloves

one cannot wear them with the tiny bits

like nuts and bolts while plastic washers keep

the rain from penetrating pre-drilled holes

but finally I have the base made up and weep

for all the parts not yet unwrapped: the sides and poles.

And worst of all: I should have measured length and wide:

There is no way my bicycle will fit inside.

Friday, 11 July 2025

11th July 2025

masochists

strangling each other for fun

jiu-jitsu

Texas Red State Senator Ange Paxton

cites the Bible when asking for divorce

when Attorney General hubby has no pants on

because he's an adulterer, of course.

I don't know which of God's laws she is citing

I assume it be seventh of Big Ten

but my front teeth are my bottom lip a-biting

lest I point out hypocrisy again.

The Bible clearly states that any marriage

is 'til death do you part and no more roaming

and if one parks in someone else's garage

the only course available is stoning.

She should take her cue from erstwhile other half

and cease her worship of the Golden Calf.

Pretend we've read it

Thursday, 10 July 2025

10th July 2025

Charley Says Always Tell Your Mummy

tin shed

deciphering assembly pictograms

lacerated hands

Charlie says the Texas flooding death toll

was because of the Diversity in staff

because if everyone was white, the whole

mountain-load of rain's a product of God's wrath.

Now Good White Christians have died in vain

as consequence of hiring Gays and Queers

and women who should stay within the home

not work a paltry wage but live in fear

of Christian men who rightly beat their wives

and rape the children of their neighbour-foes.

It's all this "honour every life" that drives

each and ev'ry one of climate horror woes.

And Charlie also says to tell your mummy

where you're going, lest she start to worry.

MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk claims Texas flood death toll ‘would not have been as high if it wasn’t for DEI’

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

9th July 2025

restless dogs

want outside at 3AM

cool air

White Right-wing men now rue the fateful day

they earnestly believe was better than before

the advent of the right to vote and equal pay;

when slavery became abhorrent and when war

was fought upon such bloody fields that men

would die for nothing more than ten more yards

of clay and muck defended unto death and then

retaken by the other side like cards

upon a table in a Big Boy's club

where class was deemed a birth right and no upstart dick

might from some clever whim a fortune rub

and show his morning face and take the Mick.

When Men were Men in powdered wigs and stockinged legs

made all the rules and pulled each other's pegs.