Byron wouldn’t have stood a chance
if the world of his time had the mass media
exposure, constant Google up-load
and Facebook name and shame being urged upon
by the two a.m. giggle fit of the warm and instantly forgiven
rant telling like it is, and the recriminations of the following
morning text, you know what you called him girl?
He may have revelled for a while, more so than Percy,
in the hashtag-moustached hag, mad, bad and dangerous
to know, but would have been concerned