Apocalypse In Haiku Poem by Mary Champion

21/8/2020

One thing deadlier
than Covid-19 virus
is this government.

Boris and cronies -
the grubbiest government
that I ever knew.

Our Prime Minister
is the invisible man.
Who has seen Boris?

This pack of posh boys
is playing at government
while drunk with power.

Once we had statesmen,
now it's Gove, Cummings, Boris
and fawning yes-men.
 
An unsteady course,
as U-turn follows U-turn
for the ship of state.

A once proud nation
reduced to a laughing-stock
by a flock of fools.

Brain-washed by tabloids
owned by multi-billionaires,
we chose this shower.

When will common sense
make a come-back in Britain?
No sign at present.

Cummings and Govings
with contracts for their cronies.
All crooks together.

I can't stop raving,
I haven't been so incensed
since Thatcher took charge.

I feel desperate.
Even nuclear weapons
were not this scary.

We may be going
to hell in a handcart, but
Brexit will be done

on Earth as it is
in Boris's blue heaven
of trade deals with Trump.

Chlorine washed chickens
and hormone fed beef cattle
will be our diet.

And the N H S
will be plundered by vultures
from U S Healthcare.

With no welfare state
to support us in bad times,
religion will rise.
 
There will be witch hunts
and burning of heretics.
God help us all then.