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'Twas Britain, and the slithy Gove

Did gyre and gimble with the May:

All mimsy was the Bozzagrove,

And Corbyn raithes laid graves.

'Beware the Brexit-beast, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Farrage bird, and shun

The frumious Junkersnatch!'

He took his Merkel sword in hand:

Long time the manxome foe he sought

And found the referendum tree,

And stood a while in thought.

And, as in uffish mood he stood,

The Brexit beast, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the UKIP woods

And burbled as it came!

Forty eight! Fifty two! And through and through

His Merkel blade went Snicker-snack!

And in his head he thought it dead

Thus went galumphing back.

'And hast thou slain the Brexit beast?

Look to the polls, my sqeamish son!

Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

He chortled in his joy.

'Twas Britain and the slithy Gove

Did gyre and gimble with the May:

All mimsy was the Bozzagrove,

And the Corbyn raithes laid graves.

-Murray Lachlan Young

The Brexit Beast