by A J Dalton
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| AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News. |
They put tariff words now
So ll use 10% less
God help hyperverbal
–they probably end homeless
Marketing all visuals now
Cos picture paints 1000
Or strange performance pieces
actions speak louder, say
Some took vow silence
There are fewer arguments truly
, it wasted breath
Yet never hear ‘ love you!’
fear proposed tariff space next
As immigration needs controlling
This poem gone too long though
And cost flaming fortune!
A J Dalton is a UK-based writer. He’s published the Empire of the Saviours trilogy with Gollancz Orion, The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy with Luna Press, the Dark Woods Rising and Green Man Ascendant poetry collections with Starship Sloane, and other bits and bobs. He lives with his monstrously oppressive cat named Cleopatra.