By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
BREXIT
Goodbye Great Britain
you unchained the bulldog on yourself
never before in the history of Empires
has so much been owed to so few
Goodbye Great Britain
“Bottoms up,” to glories past:
armadas sunk
invasions thwarted
You rose from the Blitz
to divide and conquer yourself
half an island
floating in a teacup
London’s
slum of millionaires
will feel at home in Manhattan
now that the puppet masters
have cut undersea cables
from continent?
Chin up
by sacrificing the lion
you may have set Mary’s lamb free
Goodbye Great Britain
in your cracked mirror
a shard of hope-
your former colonies
might see themselves