Friday, 18 March 2011

No Fly Zone

Hhhhmmmm.
Well.
I think ...
Said the bespectacled man
Presiding over the meeting
Of the United Nations
Security Council.
I ...
A plate of croissants
Caught his eye.
Could you pass me one of those croissants?
Wait: it's after midday.
What's our advised position
On afternoon croissant consumption?

Three score men and women
Leafed through thick portfolios.
Permissible.
Though frowned upon
To take them with preserves.
Everyone took a break
For a few minutes
To eat a croissant.
With butter, only.
The afternoon croissant consumption forms
(ACC 15.1)
Were completed in triplicate.

So ...
He continued.
Dabbing at the edges of his mouth.
Meticulously.
Sarkozys jumping up and down,
I hear.
He breathed a massive sigh.
Unfortunate: drumming up
Enthusiasm before the proper
Legal implications, not to mention,
The potential socio-economic
Repercussions, of any
International intervention,
Are comprehensively anticipated,
And approved.
Hhhhmmmm.
Tricky.
Well, that's lunch. Back here in two hours.

Seven thousand miles away,
The tank columns roll
Towards the last free city.
And like so many crumbs
Brushed off a bulge of crisp white shirt,
A people empowered by a want
For democracy and freedom,
Are scattered
And swept away.

Monday, 14 March 2011

Sex Trial Charge For Berlusconi

Piacere, Miss Mahroug, he warbles with a grin,
And clasps her supple, rounded hips with withered, olive skin.
My man in Marakesh has said you move like liquid flame.
Karima curtsies, ever coy. I try to entertain.

Falling on a gaudy chaise he gestures to the stage.
Prosecco dribbles down his chin (but such things come with age).
Would you like for me to dance? She kicks away her shoes.
Berlusconi licks his lips, Just how could I refuse?

His loins are set to bursting with her every twist and thrash
And from a vero cuoio pouch he draws a wad of cash.
Every word I've heard is true, you really are sublime,
Enough of all these pleasantries; it's bunga bunga time!



Friday, 28 January 2011

Charlie Sheen 'taken to hospital' - A haiku

Abdominal pains,
History of drug abuse.
"Five girl romp." Good lad.

Thursday, 27 January 2011

'Life-chemicals' may have formed around far flung star

Amino acids from the stars tell us
We could have come from outer space, comets.
Leftward corkscrewing molecule strands make
Quite a compelling case for the theory
Of extra-terrestrial origin.
Intriguing, to think of the alternate
Strands. Those rightward-coiling people living
Across the spiral arm of the cosmos,
Guts on the outside, eyes on ten foot stalks.
Or maybe just indifferent to Marmite.