by Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
Liz Truss is Brits' prime minister du jour.
Inquiry's overrated in her book.
Zetetic minds were offered Liz's cure—
The Trussonomic leap before you look.
How Kwasi's top-rate tax cut tanked the pound
Escaped her, since she didn't do the sums
That would have shown her growth plan was unsound—
Except for Liz The Terrible's rich chums.
Research on trickle-down had long debunked
R. Reagan's fantasy. Though not for Liz.
In Economics One-Oh-One, she flunked,
Believing if you just say growth, growth is...
Liz did not last: her hare-brained stratagem
Exemplified how not to be PM!
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Daily Mail, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, The New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, The Satirist, The Washington Post, and WestWard Quarterly.