Stumbling out of Lockdown
Like a 70s British porn star
Falling shackled from the wardrobe,
Streaky y-fronts round your ankles,
When her old man comes home early
because the abattoir’s closed down.
Opening up the schools
Like the janitor in “Please Sir!”,
Kids’ heads caught in the railings
And bodging up the carpentry
With make-do-and-mendy comedy
and jokes about The War
Tackling systemic racism
Like a blacked-up back row chorus boy
In The Black And White Minstrel Show
As seen on prime time telly, and
Now headlining the Summer Show
down the pier in endless rain.
Strategising everything,
A genius wearing tracksuit pants,
Dressing up like Jimmy Saville
In standard-issue rapist wear
And fixing it and fucking it
all up with a sneer.
Crumbling a curly-wurly
Into his bowl of Special K,
Benny-Hilling “Oo-er Missus!
It’s getting really close in here!”
He slops in slugs of Rohypnol
to forget the stench of death.