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Dirty rat. You’re a fat duck
in the House of Lords, fiddling expenses
pinching, farting. You insinuate intemperance
an excess of back-bedrooms, a debauched
dissipation in disability benefits, washed down
by a superfluity of free school dinners and social care.
You point parsimonious fingers into porky pies.
You lie with the fishes, the figures.
You’re a tight-fisted wrecking ball, punch
drunk on stuffing filthy wads into greasy palms
and offshore pension pots. You’re out to lunch
insatiable, voraciously force-feeding families
into food banks, mince-meat, rent arrears, debt.
You’re a champagne Charlie chancellor
of the exchequer who neglects to check. You’re specks
of white powder smirching naughty nostrils.
You’re a glut of gluttony gutting kitchen cupboards.
a rip-roaring rusty tin opener doing dentistry
on the NHS; an overweight authority
on obsessive abscission-making, on cutting
things cuttingly; thinking yeah, what the fuck.
Kittie Belltree is a specialist tutor for neuro-diverse students at Aberystwyth University. Her debut poetry collection, Sliced Tongue and Pearl Cufflinks (2019) is published by Parthian. 21st-Century Poetry is edited by Andy Croft, email [email protected].
