Brian - handsome as a man
blowing his nose in the Soane Museum
holding a souvenir spoon - hostile & hurried
Brian, who had lost his teeth
to the metropolitan police
spoke & spat to me in specks
“The Prince George
will lose his wealth
to gambling debt
the Rake, from rack
returns in revolt & ruin
Once and future king
high up a ladder
holding a pike
and knocking off
policemen’s hats”
Brian, with a gesture like a windmill, knocked down a maquette for a colossal 230 foot statue of Britannia never built on Greenwich hill. In the furore he said:
“This year
we’ll do some damage
it is my honest belief
that they have it coming
print this prophesy
post it to the p’lice”