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femboss as grandioid as butts no no
all come-upped to this the hard road
ladders-away her callout reverberises
and whacko to the badlots all thems
who were too lastful to be additive

o she got the bigguns right-ho and then
none would quip the legals for such she scrived
opprobriate and bootstiff all jack-snipe
and thimbine on the nebule she cock-a-hula
gifting no half no quarter not an octet

more’s the pity but for her no squidget of it
while snideling the length of a downbeak stare
she say the sideways ent sauf for nob-doddy
out of my stride ye bagavond ladles and mens
it was youse wot choised so youse’ll get cotched

wozzit gets a geizurette hi-horsity hellbended
on turfitude for the intenters and the nowhirrs
zit pecuniars and the trappines mackemtorese
think no tatterdenomates count a whitter
oh Mistruss Bravo she just gettafuzz and clinkem

sa forken disgradation, so tizz!
© BH, 2023

It’s been coming down the line. Home Secretary Braverman’s heartless take on the rest of humanity. Good word, that; she has humanity in short measure…

This, then is the poem I decided to render meaningless for my exercise in ‘asemic writing’.

The poem itself is written in nonsense for the most part. (I sensed a note of Tom Leonard creeping in.) But maybe with some meaning still to be construed. As ever, with writing, I still can’t resist giving away the meaning after all. It’s what I do.


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