Echo and Narcissus

         after Echo and Narcissus, by Glyn Philpot (bronze with green patina)

Did either of them have a moment’s unease?

He, before the pool of social media reflected back all he wanted to see,

She, before she found herself cursed by the god of Abandon, that minor deity

of the Home Counties

who thought he had only to ask the people, gi...

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Triggering Article 50 –

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Happiness is a warm gun, bang bang shoot shoot  (Lennon-McCartney)

A clicking sensation is going through her Trigger

Happy Finger, itching to pull.

Bang Bang.

No-one can hold a gun for long,

arms get tired, the finger suddenly jerks

Bang Bang, too late..

And why have a gun, in the first place, Mrs M,

the licencing officer asks...

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