sauntering hard-pressed gay iconic
breathing dust fetishes doctors utopian ideas
isolation COVID wards dictating perfumery
etching’s right wings’ jackboot pharmacy
gathering loyal politicians’ quest
eons marking outings of new normal
neighbours’ released embarking Labour quest
eons smashing into Johnnson snare
utopian breathing doctors in perfumery
counters dictating political outrage
as yet another newspaper headline gobs
dictating newsprint looked up in anger
at yet another cosy TV debate
our future debentures frankly insolvent
wheeling newspaper barons drunk on typesetters
to the biting satire of gathering loyal politicians.
Clive Gresswell