By voting in or out

Britain could still be in the Eurovision

Song Contest, by voting out

or in, there might still

be an arsehole in Number 10, by voting

in or out, you could find

another arse waiting in the wings,

(or you might not), by

voting out, voting in

or even spoiling your paper,

one set of people will be happy,

(we didn’t vote for that)

and another will be spitting rags

(we didn’t vote for that either…did we?),

by voting in or out or even picking the fluff

out of our navel, Genesis could reform,

or even finding the fluff in our navel

possibly can or might not, maybe

find the answer to why forty-two.

By voting, in, out, maybe, possibly,

could and might may see the House

of Commons take advantage and vote

for definite for a pay rise above

the average by around a good ten per cent,

or may even eleven, by voting in, out, leave, remain,

go away, disappear, move the islands closer

to its own hedge funded tax loophole,

nip off, stay behind, abscond or even feign

long term memory loss, both sides will claim

either victory or that the opposition

don’t speak

for the will of the people and

that they should all resign.

By voting in or out is either fashionable

or exposed by its absence;

but by voting in or out, possibly maybe

even unsure and ask again but with less

legal bollocks attached, the answer

to the question will be known,

if we really know what the enquiry is.

 

Ian D. Hall 2016