by Jerome Betts
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Dominic Cummings, sacked special adviser to Boris Johnson, has been releasing embarrassing WhatsApp messages exchanged with his former employer. Cartoon by Howard McWilliam. |
Internal emails, swift to write,
Whose speed can spread more heat than light
And tempt a PM in too deep
With words the media used to bleep,
You cheer us when we note with glee.
His post in peril from D.C.
O linen stained with dog-eat-doggery
Put on display in public bloggery,
May you prove fatal in the end
To both buffoon and faithless friend
So evermore we shall be free
Of Tweedle B. and Tweedle D.
Jerome Betts lives in Devon, England, and edits the verse quarterly Lighten Up On Line. His work has appeared in a wide variety of British magazines and anthologies as well as UK, European, and North American web publications such as Amsterdam Quarterly, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, The Asses of Parnassus, Better Than Starbucks, The Hypertexts, Light, The New Verse News, and Snakeskin.