Atypical Villanelle

Atypical Villanelle

This villanelle is atypical;

I’m presently mentally, physically, sick

of being politically lyrical,

and as boringly predictable,

as a pony with a singular trick;

this villanelle is atypical;

an attempt at being uncynical;

a breakaway, if you will, from the tic

of being politically lyrical;

and while it may be neither mystical,

romantic, nor especially slick,

this villanelle is atypical;

decidedly apolitical,

a nineteen line ramble, minus the kick

of being politically lyrical;

no left, right, middle, no ridicule;

of blue, red, yellow, not even a lick!

this villanelle is atypical,

of being politically lyrical.

Gabby Andy the Right-Wing Cab Driver

Gabby Andy the Right-Wing Cab Driver

Gabby Andy the Right-Wing Cab Driver

I once took a taxi to Weatherspoon’s,

For a pint of draught vintage dry cider;

And met a yea-sayer of Brexit boons;

Gabby Andy, the right-wing cab driver.

Braving the potholes that blight our estate,

(And indeed are a plague on the nation),

Unprompted, he told me, “Britain was great,

Before wokeness and mass-immigration”.

“I’m not a racist”, he loudly proclaimed,

And I inwardly judged him a liar;

Your bigoted views are deeply ingrained,

Gabby Andy, you right-wing cab driver.

He lavished praise on MP, Rupert Lowe;

“A patriot and gentleman with flare”;

Omitting or mayhap, he didn’t know,

Of Lowe’s interests in private healthcare.

The policies of UKIP and Reform UK,

Will raise health costs higher and higher;

More than a working class racist could pay,

Gabby Andy, you right-wing cab driver.

We arrived, and I, by way of goodnight,

Said, “I’d rather be woke than a wanker”!

Upon which he spat a barrage of spite,

And expletives decidedly ranker:

“The culture of woke is Marxist”, said he,

With a spittle of rancid saliva;

How more brainwashed, could he possibly be?

Gabby Andy, the right-wing cab driver.

And though this scenario never occurred;

Sadly many a YouTube subscriber,

Listens and hangs on the man’s every word;

Gabby Andy, the right-wing cab driver.