WE can’t be too careful
about the British Public.
It gets bigger and bigger
and its perambulator has to get bigger and bigger
and its dummy-teat has to be made bigger and bigger and bigger
and the job of changing its diapers gets bigger and bigger and
bigger and bigger
and the sound of its howling gets bigger and bigger and bigger
and bigger and bigger
and the feed of pap that we nurses and guardian angels of
the press have to deal out to it
gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger
yet its belly-ache seems to get bigger too
and soon even god won’t be big enough to handle that infant.