BLUES IN TWOS (2)

As England descends into even greater chaos by the day, with the pandemic far from over, race riots in many major cities and unlawful assembly very much the new norm, it's tempting to look on from a safe distance and wonder whether anarchy isn't just around the corner?

PIGEON BLUES

Pity us poor pigeons, please,

forced to perch on roofs and trees

for the statues that we sat on

have been overturned and spat on.

All those worthies of the ages

have now been encased in cages

lest the mobs, now judge and jury,

desecrate them in their fury.

Statues are a pigeon’s toilet:

put one up, we’re sure to soil it

with a coat of guano splatter.

Bring them back, don’t pigeons matter?