It's so jolly,
Bunting far as eye can see
Across closed pubs
Adorning food banks
For the royal jubilee.
Postbox cosies
Cry: "God bless her, everyone!"
And there she is,
God bless her, sitting
Polite
Through celebration.
Asks the Queen of Party Hats.
Aunty's airing hardline views on
Media-confected spats.
Best suit pawned to pay the bill.
Someone brought a Party Seven,
For each Union Jack and Jill.
Drunk on power and disrepair.
Nanny taps the eighteenth century:
"Jacob, are you still in there?"
Forlorn and luckless
Shades of glory hand-me-downs
Hard the bread
And grim the circus:
Too much shit
Too many clowns.