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January 16/01/2021 - 31/01/2021
16/01/2021
To borrow a line
from the late, great Dan Leno:
‘Here we are again.’
Again, government
rips off tax payers, to line
their own silk pockets.
Guess the value of:
two over-ripe bananas,
a loaf, and four Frubes.
Are we so inured
to gross insult and outrage
that we don’t feel it?
Stupidity would
perhaps be forgivable.
He is not stupid.
17/01/21
Thor’s hammer removed
From White House by archivists,
Engraved with Trump’s name.
Must be protected
from ‘the baying mob’: Jenrick
on Britain’s statues.
Britain should not try
to edit or censor past
states secretary.
20/01/21
Gingerbread splodges,
decimated. Hollywood
too slow to judge me.
21/01/21
Dull but competent
plea for unity. Biden’s
Inauguration.
A Zoom parade of
bland celebrity culture
and good intentions.
Collective relief,
when a little corniness
feels like luxury.
Retreat in fanfare.
The histrionics of a
narcissist man-child.
Catholic, teacher, Black,
Jew, walk into the White House.
No pun, just progress.
23/01/2021
First of the year’s lambs
bleat a plaintive vibrato
as the snow comes down.
24/01/2021
A proper flurry!
Noisy excitement equal,
almost, to Christmas.
A haiku is made
of seventeen syllables:
5-7-5, like so.
25/01/21
It’s not ‘censorship’
to question the statues in
our public spaces.
Covid deaths higher
among lowest paid workers
in England and Wales.
Schools not expected
to fully reopen for
many more weeks yet.
25/01/2021
New York, New York: a
love letter to its people
at a time of need.
“[Former] President
Agent Orange like Hitler.”
Spike Lee on Trump’s reign.
26/01/21
A cardboard castle,
complete with merlons, home to
Queen Hester the Cat.
Boris’s sorrow
at one hundred thousand deaths
from mismanagement.
27/01/21
Today’s bored baking:
Cornish pasties, scones, meringue;
Today’s weight: secret.
‘Eat out to help out’
seems farcical in hindsight.
What brainwaves come next?
Party leader, whose
entire life has been a
vanity project.
28/01/21
Pavements pebble dashed
with dog poo. Our walks become
a dance to dodge them.
Written by Sally Jones