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📜Think-tanker's lament: a poetic interlude...
The pundit’s chest tightens
as Europe far-Rightens
and the Centre drifts further away
What happens next
is anyone’s guess
as there’s not enough Left to say
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In a sort of Guardian latter-day version of Pale Fire, this poem is really good but the comments are where the real action is
Poem of the week: The Bin-Men Go on Strike by Raymond Queneau theguardian.com/books/2023/a…
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Getting to bike shop
to pick up bike is a pain
during public transit strike
in driving wind sleet rain
me no like
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With each day that comes, daylight time is extended, soon the sun follows. That is my haiku of hope.
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Monday's PM is weak and frit,
Tuesday's PM is full of shit.
Wednesday's PM is always wrong,
Thursday's PM won't last long.
Friday's PM is lying and lying,
Saturday's PM parties hard while you're dying.
And the PM on the Sabbath day
Gets trolled on Kuenssberg, and then runs away.
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In Brussels you can park anywhere you like
if it gets you there quicker
Leave your car on the sidewalk
or under a cherry-picker
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The people we all know as Finns,
Stay neutral when trouble begins,
But now that a neighbour
Turned angry invader,
The Outs are now very much Ins.
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An MP (whose name is unknown)
Was caught watching porn on his phone.
The House is offended:
He may be suspended,
And then must debate on his own.
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The popular online game 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩,
Must now leap a bit of a ⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩.
If charging a fee
After once being free
Its success may rapidly ⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩.
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~ A haiku, for Boris ~
Breaches of the law
Are never black-and-white things
So you must Sue Gray
If your Monday mood’s all sulk and curse
Let @Berlaymonster turn it from bad to verse
berlaymonster.com/post/we-ne…
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Is monetisation a curse,
And will it make Twitterland worse?
While Twitter's top scholars
Want dollars for follers,
To poets, the charge is perverse.
theguardian.com/technology/2…
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The EU, enraged and in fits,
Is tearing a drug firm to bits,
For jabs that it thought
It had paid for and bought,
Were actually sold to the Brits.
@twitmericks
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.@TheAmandaGorman poem is now a permanent part of the written record of the Biden #Inauguration ... Here's how it appears in the Congressional Record:
