Sunday 2 February 2020

Jerusalem


drop in tune out & turn off

what mah gonna lob at Trump tonight
name him the climate change regicide
Hasan-i-Sabah of the golf club
blackball his snide

words don’t weaponise the pacifist
be meself for once just stop & think
sticks'n'stones won’t break his balls nor pomes
loaded with stink

probably a swarm of locust would
conjure more applause than metaphors
comb the White House lawn with robot claws
cleaning his spoors

who could then unleash a plague of rats
that'd eat up all the green kickbacks
Biblicise the war on cheese with quotes
Jonah would pack

that's enough shut up for once & all
leave him sprawling on the game show floor
call a halt to this impeachment trial
do touch that dial



PG the final tips


I

Plastic God eschews the land He leaks
into wells some time ago a Greek
weaponised His fumes ten thousand ships
burst into flames

Bedou tending pools of Him had stacked
goatskin loads on camels' backs to trade
at the coast for pots of wine & bronze
knives then did sly

Promo Theus scale another route
using alchemy revealed His core
element as diamond soup but kept
quiet for yonks

meantime whales got hunted down for spunk
just before the automobile age
raged across the planet leaving Him
overnight king

glam rock followed the end was in sight
vinyl worship sent demand to new
heights of depth from which the Plastic One
rose ashèn winged

II

worship Me in effigy He roared
flaming from a solid rocket bird
soon the heavens started spanking new
stars did the strand

those who'd put their faith in credit smiled
Plastic bore the weight of gold but felt
light as air spent just as frictionless
outlets did trade

out at sea He brought freedom to fish
never saw such low conception rates
broke all records when condoms blew up
like ’88

supermarkets bagged the greatest share
margins low enough to triple wrap
codswallop @twice the going rate
checkout galore

AstroTurf was knelt on by the score
drinking to the victory over there
in His styrofoams He promised they’d
conquer the world

III

huh nowadays Plastic ain’t all that
tries to sneak back down His hole the mutt
Old King Coal was sleeping on the job
Olive is next

time to let the baggins out of jin
solar winds to blow the keks off Him
paper tigers at His coattails this
headline just in

Plastic God is through but with defeat
staring Him in the anonymous
mask He tries to engineer one
last for the past

check His new credentials out He's pea
green inside forget the single use
propaganda hanging round His bin
second hand Him

chains of molecules are wily beasts
snakes on grass that hold a Bible class
Plastic God's got anti-Christ you see
try Him for free





Jerusalem

I

feat of space & time the Promised Land
can't be beat its very ashes bleed
what lives on when countless folk have died
Phoenix or pride

Romans Saracens & Jews abound
overseas from old Byzantium
Turks Crusaders Druze the lot collide
still it survives

is there magic does Jehovah dole
out milk & honey while hand grenades
spike the fields even Samaritans
get on the phone

Everyman has got to come from some
where it might as well be there but be
ware the price of land in dollars per
metre goes up

up & up you gorra be dead rich
man to own an inch its very stones
cost the Earth the most exclusive grave
yard in the world

II

let the politics get back to square
one reset the clock to zero ground
God's representative has not been
on His rounds yet

men & women thrive in Eden right
not to pick too fine a bone they split
cooking cleaning washing up & child
care fair & square

till some angel taking one aside
spins a line it hardly matters what
since the other hasn't seen or heard
diddly squat

promises promises did those feet
countenance devine & all that jazz
take the cow to market Jack my son
new lamps for old

call a snake a snake a burning bush
fire for heaven's sake if truth be told
you've been on the sauce again a word
isn't The Word

III

Promised Land means what exactly fig
trees & olive groves look there a date
palm some flowering Judas trees a goat
wouldn't debark

well there’s water underground it rains
on & off the winters bloody cold
not what you'd call Eden Gardens how
much do they want

world's powerfulest clown Alexei Sayle
Alsop boy before my time but still
Kosher Scouse & diamond geezer swore
blind not to sell

out as president do one thing Pal
get the Palestinians their rights
tell that Knitting Yahou he's not on
stump up the cash

pay the beggar off & call it quits
as for William Blake the music's good
change the words & it'll be a hit
land of the free

                    [ dah dah da-da daah
nah na-na nah nah naah naaah naaaah... ]



force majeure or act of war

not fanatics crushed at football ties
funeral ravers villagers with strange
dialects or gods in gas attacks
far faraway

not some demonstrators charged & shot
down cos why was anyone in that
town those fools whose plane would cross the lines
should’ve stayed put

not escapees from dictatorships
refugees in leaky boats their routes
hopeful when compared to neighbours who
croaked with mouths shut

nor the people swept away & drowned
venturing abroad on holiday
burnt to death or decimated by
epidemics

just some folks who lived next door but one
bods with kids or pets those mums & dads
seen on queues who'd chat & lend a hand
if they were asked

Do Lend A Hand!


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