Angela Merkel's Poem for her Lost Russian Lover - презрение не ревность - Contempt Not Jealousy Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

What's life like now with your hostess?
Simpler? A cash in for the rouble
As the Silk Road sell-out progresses?
Does the memory of me trouble?

Like pine nuts and fragrant plums
Or ersatz amber and jade traded across Eurasia
You'll be paltry together - sold for small sums
Tokens not love knots in Siberia.

What's life like with a very ordinary
Materialist? Now that you've dethroned
Europe - renounced the visionary
And set aside the values you once owned?

What's your life like now with Cathay
No more riding bears only buses!
What price do you pay
For endless triviality - the losses?

I'm through with your turns and twists
Enough! I'll rent a place in Ukraine!
What's it like with a pseudo-communist
Harlot, my tiger-hunting bird brain?

More suitable and palatable -
Not noodles again - don't complain...
What's it like with a Chinese Doll
Dumplings and soy sauce a strain?

How's life with a money grubber
Without culture or higher aspiration
Is it to your liking?

Do you miss the stars in the gutter
Facedown without civilization -
Humming to drown the mice in your mind?

How do you live with cheap stuff:
Is the novelty market rising?
How is it kissing plastic and bumf?

Are you bored she's so mercenary?
Has her leaden lack of ideas
Started to offend?

Are you sad or mad? Tears?
Are your black sea crimes returning
To curse you when you could have been our friend?



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