Vote for Trump, American or not

[Achebe]

Vote for Trump, American or not
note: apparently, 'make America great again' was originally a Reagan slogan (nice rhyme), so the Brits missed their chance even in the '80s to...

Make America Great (Britain) again,
make them play the right ball game again,
a six test rubber, drawn by rain again
for British pensioners have nowhere to go  –
not the Guadalquiver, nor banks of the Po
for the sluice gates are closing on the Calais barrage
on the English Channel – thanks, Nigel Farage.
Once they had choice, the Sahibs and Mems,
of tea taken daily as far from the Thames
as their hearts desired, or mouths could utter
dem blasted names – Murumbudgee, Calcutta,
though pining even there for fog and rain,
the murky Severn, and Great Britain,
where the sunny expats badly wanted to go.
So vote for Trump, though the winner is picked anyway –
‘Merican or not – the polls are rigged anyway –
and make America Great (Britain) again,
mature, cynical, able to complain again
and know their Guinness from their Sinn Fein again
for British pensioners have nowhere to go.

[Lizzie]

I like the exact rhymes at the ends of many of your line and how the poem starts out with 3 again's and recapitulates the three again toward the end. Gives a great sense of closure to it.

And, very funny  I want to share it with my friends, but that's against the rules.

Alas, it's all fun and games until November arrives. We shall see.

[Achebe]

I like the exact rhymes at the ends of many of your line and how the poem starts out with 3 again's and recapitulates the three again toward the end. Gives a great sense of closure to it.

And, very funny  I want to share it with my friends, but that's against the rules.

Alas, it's all fun and games until November arrives. We shall see.

Thanks  
Feel free to share - I'm only possessive about my mawkish little sad poems, not the ones that - at least try to be - funny   

[Leanne]

Beautifully done. Besides, if America becomes totally inhospitable, all the whinging Poms will end up here and we can't have that!

[Erthona]

Now that GB has left the eu it should join up with America as we all speak the same language more or less. Where's Margret Thatcher when you need her? We could put her in charge of the whole thing.


dale

[billy]

fuck the yanks and the ozzies; india....we want it back

[Achebe]

@Leanne - a weak AUD is already drawing American tourists and their cheery patronage of Starbucks to the Fatal Shore. We might need the whingeing Poms to blight all that unnecessary optimism before it makes Ms Hanson truculent (not you, the famous one).

@dale - the Iron Lady is no more, but we could ask tectak to ask Steve Harris whether Iron Maiden might be interested. It is possible that tectak is actually Steve Harris, since they haven't been seen in the same room together.

@billy - it'll come with Bollywood film music played by 1 billion people working in 11 million convenience stores all saying 'may I help you' at the same time. Besides, the maharajahs have passed into folklore, and the tigers into Chinese medicine.

[Lizzie]

Now that GB has left the eu it should join up with America as we all speak the same language more or less. Where's Margret Thatcher when you need her? We could put her in charge of the whole thing.

Even dead, I'm pretty sure that MT would still make a better president than either of our two options.