She lay in state for days, a gracious Queen,
Life’s work respected by a mourning host,
Soon after someone else had quit the scene,
Who lied for years both in and out of post.
Life’s work respected by a mourning host,
Soon after someone else had quit the scene,
Who lied for years both in and out of post.
Jerome Betts lives in Devon, England, and edits the verse quarterly Lighten Up Online. 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.