AFFAIRS OF STATE 17 May 2025

By now you see the Ship of State’s become a Ship of Fools,

The Laws are challenged daily by the Court’s Supreme Misrules,

Its Captain’s fast become a King, th’Assembly’s but his tools,

The earth and all its treasures hang about his dreams like jewels

But History, throughout time, repents, and yawns, and casts its thunders,

And seventy-seven million, soon, imprisoned with their blunders,

And once again the Ship of Fools, now 86’d, has gone,

And once again, though mightier now, The Ship of State sails on!

Don’t call me Steve the Fantasist, who dreams our world’s aright,

These words, I know, are doggerel — but doggerels also bite!