Not Mary

 

My favourite is where

one of my aunts, not Mary

always told the Tories

she was voting for them

but needed a lift

to the polling station

getting herself a Bentley

with cow leather seats

to deliver her

most comfortably

to democracy

then made her mark

                         for Labour

 

She’ll be for Jeremy

walking if necessary

 

 

 

 

The Quality of Dope

 

If you ignore the warnings

and put your head

inside the plastic bag

that’s carried skunk

all the way from Penrith

to Kilburn you end up writing

an endorsement like this. I’m

supporting Jeremy Corbyn

because he wouldn’t

put out the eyes of children

to further his ambition

and the others would