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The Sequel (Sonnet)

T2 will be an egocentric Déjà vu

T2 will bring back the hullabaloo

T2 will be the worst-ever S.N.A.F.U.

T2 will guarantee vindictive chaos ensues

T2 will be no ‘nice to be back, how-do-you-do’ 

T2 will bring back the world's horribilis hairdo

 

Don’t be a Muslim, Hindu, or Jew

Don’t say you’re a boy once named Sue

Don’t say you’re a migrant from Xanadu

Don’t say you’r...

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sonnetMAGAU.S. Election

Election

As poor as I am

I can still see the lies

Dripping down from posters

Larger than life

Each party vying for my eye line

Sides of the same dice

 

Hope, Fear

Progress,  Strength

Hate, Together

 

Each rolling towards me

Saying anything I like …

 

A tannoy blurts out

Some nonsensical nonsense

flags are waving in the air

and the dumb have becom...

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It's all my fault! I wrote this before polls closed... And now look at the confusion with counting!

 

A Parachute For The Embarrassed And Fearless

 

 

The world displayed an embarrassment

As they countered it was down to

How the outside perceived it's trick

Of seeming to have need of parachute

Thrills but so high it seems difficult

Some walked away requesting their attention

That minute concluding the skyfall

With no escape and lie of roll

A Circus trick distr...

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U.S. Election

Banish him

The President's locked in his tower

he doesn't know what to do

they're taking away his power

the Black Man, the Woman, the Jew

he tweets away the hour

In his silence he's off to cower

Come November let's make him boo hoo

 

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