It’s become true even if it isn’t
That on VE day the Princesses
Elizabeth and Margaret slipped
Out of the Royal Palace
And mingled with the Masses
It was the equivalent
Of becoming Communists
Or being hippies
Smoking marijuana
And playing in a jazz band
In a basement club in Soho
But imagine if
While they were out
Having a knees-up
Their places had been taken
By poets. Nina Cassian
The Romanian, Akhmatova
The Russian
We could have been ruled
By our imaginations
Once King George
Had popped his clogs
No longer subjects
But free citizens
It is possible, trust me
.
Steven Taylor
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