Category poems

A Modest Proposal for the 21st c.

in the film ‘The Wild One’, the character played by Marlon Brando is asked what he’s rebelling against.
His reply? “Whadda you got?”

It’s a universal truth
that we should have low expectations
of those who climb the greasy pole
to lead our island nation...

Kneecap /ˈniːkap/ noun
Convex bone in front of
knee joint; the patella.

Waking at first light in the hope
of some miraculous resurrection of hope,
an Easter miracle come early...

(an incomplete list, some items may be missing)

after Dorothy Parker

my sisters, my friends. It is so easy
to pick up the first stone and cast it.

not much at all...

to any one of us...

after Pastor Martin Niemöller

“They’d send a limousine anyway…”
The Clash