[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

poets MUST make poems that are resistant to those pressures, must make structures out of language that endure and embrace the true complexity of our lives, especially when politics has failed us so completely. When our language is debased, most other things soon follow.

I agree. I also think that this is the space for satire and social commentary, which has its own well-written tradition & narrative that can make resistance stronger (not that it shouldn't be broken either - in fact it calls to be broken).

On a personal level, I write to process things, and although this does NOT play to my strengths, I fell back on that narrative to process my thoughts today -

Bluster and perfidy!
BJ was perfectly
Lined up to set up
This post-Brexit mess.
Cheerfully (dirtily)
Tirelessly (sordidly)
Grinning his head off
And lying as well.
But if you’re well financed
You’ll never lack triumphs
(or tea trolleys worth more
than most monthly salaries)
Play to the gallery.
We’ll be just fine!
The UK’s divided,
Food prices are rising –
Borrowing frantically
Won’t buy us time.
Let’s write a letter
Addressed to…whoever?
(most of the cabinet’s
now seeking therapy).
Luckily (cordially)
Caretaking (dubiously)
BJ’s reportedly
Got a last plan.
Let’s have a leaving bash!
Champers and canapés!
Chequers looks great today
(nothing’s in disarray)
He’ll be just fine.

And although I'm not a Hugh Grant superfan, this also made me laugh -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEYdP_OJKNw

Sarah-Jane
(the things that don't make me laugh are current global turf wars around food-producing areas. That just scares me).