Topical Acrostic Sonnets

 So Long, Farewell

 So long, farewell, Keir Starmer, failed First Lord
 Of Britain's Treasury. Your fraught two years,
 Less thirteen days, in office underscored
 Outstanding technocratic skill appears
 Not helpful as PM. Your promise—we'd
 Get change—was good: you're quite beyond compare
 For U-turns. But you droned, and couldn't read
 A room like Andy B, whose jaunty air
 Replaces your solemnity, and you
 Erred most by taking charge beneath Big Ben
 Without a plan we'd buy—just like the new
 Executive-in-chief at Number Ten ...
 Long tenure, Andy B? Don't undersell—
 Lest, two years hence, you hear: So long, farewell!

 (First published in Light on 29th June, 2026 as
  one of the Poems of the Week. Story here)



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