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Shagnasty Hancock

Hands, face, space Write your own punchline He's sorry, so that's okay the matter's closed so that's that then ejaculation as Parliamentary privilege if you watch closely he's slipping her fifties with the tongue the blurry image of a clammy grapple wresting the millions and funnelling them down, out, away offshore, the lubricated pipes of finance the KY of money greasing the way for  Matt Hancock, Hatt Mancock That Cockman, Mock Anthat You know, that cunt the one who set the police on professors the one who loaded the cash on his mates sometimes you need to be oblique in poems, but sometimes it's better just to say, you know the one who killed all those people then lied about it and I don't care about his pallid gasping his spasmodic clutches and heavy breathing his torch for his old Uni friend, that's a  pathetic story, been done a million times but the dead, I care about them

When the internet disappeared

At first, I thought  for a thrilling instant that  poets had taken over Twitter  as all the emo jis bec ame two col umn sof text and every other tweet became a concrete poem (though I soon realised that if the poets had taken over Twitter it would only be to publicise their work) so what, then? but soon, the whispers  started sweeping across the screen a ransom attack hackers, terrorists the Russians the Chinese the mob aliens Governments to topple order on the brink chaos beckoning and for a few moments the world became less certain the truth is always more prosaic, of course a pulled cord a spilled coffee "A service configuration that triggered disruptions" they said, and we nodded wisely and as everything flickered back into being the world became real again