Brexit Sonnet No. 97 – ‘A Careworn Pantomime’

Ms.K on BBC , her tongue just wagged,
‘Tensions revealed sometimes by tiny things’.
Could tiny things be Ireland’s border snag,
Or Gibraltar’s fate that curséd Brexit brings?
These are tiny things – just good fun,
As compared with cabinet rifts not closed.
Two years in and not one blueprint done,
Two years in and where we are….who knows?
So get them into Chequers one more time,
Bill it as a ‘make or break’….again.
This now looks a careworn pantomime,
This time with thirty members, O what pain!
Meantime, on Monday, talks begin afresh,
To cause our battered can yet more distress.

©Keith Murphy