Pencil Poke, No Joke

Trump plays pathetic playground politics,

depicts Adam Schiff with a pencil neck.

These pretty poor tricks,

an abuse of his position, 

calling names, sick power games,

profiting from insults, claims

twenty eight dollars each, to purchase,

in the presidential election race,

T shirts printed with Adam Schiff’s face,

a pencil neck and a clown’s red nose.

Even for you, this goes pretty low, shows

who’s really the clown round here. It’s quite clear.

‘The smallest, thinnest neck I have ever seen.’

Like, what the heck does that even mean?

You don’t know how to use a pencil, do ya?

Mean like a redneck, rough neck bully boy,

brass neck chancer.

You got some neck on ya, Mr President.

Apparently, ‘He is not a long ball hitter.’

Better by a long shot than being a bullshitter, 

pussy grabber, petty presumptuous fool.

Donald Trump, it’s just not cool.

© Janey Colbourne

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Janey is a writer, performance poet and musician, exploring nature, culture and politics. Her feminist poetry challenges rape culture and its perpetuating myths.

This One’s A Bit Edgy

This One’s A Bit Edgy

We have farmers to thank for our overbite,

the change in our jaw alignment.

If it wasn’t for farmers we wouldn’t say ‘farmers’

or fuck—all those labiodental consonants.

The loss of our edge-to-edge bite gave us the edge 

to get edgy with words, like fuck, and fornicate, and vagina.

Blame farmers for soft food diets, fundamentally fucking with biology, 

a cultural shift, that shifted our jaws, that led to a cultural shift,

the diversification of language. 

So thank you farmers for giving a fuck. 

We’ve been fucking ever since.

© Janey Colbourne

Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s

Holocaust

Holocaust

Denial of the gassing of the masses

Gaslighting on a mass scale

Both the action and reaction

Systematic eradication

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More than 2.6m Brits are Holocaust deniers, poll finds

United States Incarceration Rates

United States Incarceration Rates

ironically

two point three

million prisoners

in the land of the free

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Study: Half of US adults have had close family member jailed

Wealth Creators

the money man stands

to make it minted

shafting those who graft for him

still skint and claiming benefits

to pay the rent

aching bones and broken homes

are not sufficient sacrifice

for now he beams with hand outstretched

to those whose torture

raised his fortune

buy back what you made he says

at twice the price

the money man stands

to make a killing

sweat shop hell holes

selling souls

as workers feud

between themselves

this modern form of feudalism

‘free market’ capitalism

really fundamentalism

steals our freedom

all encompassed exploitation

slaves to market

mark up margins

profits bulging

built on breaking backs

while others fall

between the cracks

the money man stands

to make a profit

as he passes goods from hand to hand

then makes demands

drives down the price

and takes his slice

why should we not sack this guy?

he bleeds us dry

unending greed

bureaucracy

chain of command

this blatant cashing in on artisans

his plan

to gatecrash our endeavours

will the real

creators please stand?

time to sever

upstart business

profiteering

managers forever

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What Jeff Bezos spending $2 billion would feel like to the average American

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Janey Colbourne is a writer, performance poet and musician, exploring nature, culture and politics. Her feminist poetry challenges rape culture and its perpetuating myths. Twitter: @JaneyColbourne

It’s A Crime To Sleep When You’re Homeless

sleeping on the streets

is a criminal behaviour

no nodding off

or the plod will carry you off

and slap you with a fine

for napping

busking is permitted

just don’t let those lids

shut for a minute

or you’ll be in the shit

snoozing is prohibited

limited by law

even if you’re sober

don’t let that head loll over

or they’re onto you

so what if you are down and out

as long as we can’t see it

out in town

when you hit rock bottom

and your bottom’s on a rock

use matchstick props

till nine o’ clock

so you’re not locked up

in the slammer

© Janey Colbourne

Blackburn ukelele busker arrested – for falling asleep

Janey Colbourne is a writer, performance poet and musician, exploring nature, culture and politics. Her feminist poetry challenges rape culture and its perpetuating myths. Twitter: @JaneyColbourne

A Resignation Letter From Mr Johnson

Up is down, black is white,

left is right.

That might explain why

the left hand doesn’t know

what the right hand is doing.

It wasn’t me, they did it:

the naughty EU.

I’m telling the truth,

when I tell you preposterous lies,

so audacious they must be believed.

I’ll hit you then blame you

for hitting yourself.

Don’t you know? Up is down,

out is in, black is white,

Lies are truth, wrong is right.

By gaslight.

© Janey Colbourne

Boris Johnson lied about EU safety regulation in his resignation letter

Janey Colbourne is a writer, performance poet and musician, exploring nature, culture and politics. Her feminist poetry challenges rape culture and its perpetuating myths. Twitter: @JaneyColbourne

Bikini Dilemma

Can a real woman after fifty
wear a bikini? Well let me see
now, is she real and does she have one?
Can she get it on?
(The bikini I mean, steady on!
Although, you know,
we’re not quite past it yet.)

Dare she wear? Dare she bare?
Dare she share her real self?
Or should she now sit on the shelf
with saggy tits and scary bits?
Although, I have to say,
The men don’t put it all away.

Get real, be free,
and if you want to go for it,
defiant in your glory,
age comes to us all, so what,
acknowledge your true beauty,
And, just damn well wear your bikini.

© Janey Colbourne

Can a real woman wear a Bikini after 50?

Janey Colbourne is a writer, performance poet and musician, exploring nature, culture and politics. Her feminist poetry challenges rape culture and its perpetuating myths. Twitter: @JaneyColbourne

Dear Ms Greer

Dear Ms Greer,
I hear you say
no one was ever killed by a penis.
Are we making too much fuss?
If all that died was trust,
all that died was lust,
all that died was self-respect,
all that died was feeling safe
in the arms of a man.

Dear Ms Greer,
Are we making too much fuss?
If all that died was love,
all that died was a marriage,
all that died was being open to touch,
all that died was the freedom
to have the most beautiful experience in life,
untainted.

So, dear Ms Greer,
All that died.
And what survives, locked inside?
Life sentence PTSD, anxiety,
pill-popping to hold in
the swirling, sickening, shameful, screaming,
churning, raging horror.

But dear Ms Greer,
I hear you say,
they can’t do violence with a penis.

© Janey Colbourne

Germaine Greer calls for punishment for rape to be reduced

Janey Colbourne is a writer, performance poet and musician, exploring nature, culture and politics. Her feminist poetry challenges rape culture and its perpetuating myths. Twitter: @JaneyColbourne