Full Tonto Poem by Mark Heathcote

Defence minister Ben Wallace says Putin has 'gone full tonto.'
So saddle up your 'wild horse's folks, '
and get out of your lunatic asylum beds
he's mental folks now, that's-what-I've read.

Putin has 'gone full tonto' they say,
there is no neutrality in this nuts psychiatric unit.
He's said to have lost it during his covid-19 isolation lockdown,
they say he's been sharping knives for a good while now
and even wants to microwave the world for his Sunday roast?


Putin has 'gone full tonto' they say,
saving comrades and neighbours from Neo-Nazism
all his clowns and jesters are clueless about what the hell to do
so they wave flags and fire bullets and generally join in his parade.
Announcing corridors are opening to the poor folk they're killing.

Putin has 'gone full tonto' they say,
and who can disagree when a baby boy dies of shrapnel wounds
died in his mother's arms on International Women's Day
and all he and they can say is war has its casualties
maybe they shouldn't have got in our way.