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Cherie Christmas

Silver-haired, his eyebrow arched,

Tony bares his well-scrubbed fangs:

The shirt is very freshly starched,

His eyes, as mobile as meringues,

 

Stare past your shoulders, left and right.

Cherie applies a fibrillator

In her palm, though out of sight.

Does the picture illustrate a

 

Fallen idol, plaster saint?

Well-tanned Tony’s here to peddle

Peace to all, to urge restraint,

To tell you that he’s bound to meddle

 

When Herod kills each eldest kiddie,

When Pharisees need condemnation:

When Judas needed comfort, did he

Have at hand The Blair Foundation?

 

Gordon’s gone, the snapshot warns –

John the Baptist’s had his fill.

Every day has several dawns.

Please recall me at your will.

 

Cherie has slipped her left hand round

To tug the string that brings a grin.

Propped up, waiting, not a sound,

Here is Tony’s mannequin.

 

Click here to read a Guardian article, and also to see the card

 

Click here to buy Bill’s poetry collection Ringers

 

Click here to follow Bill’s New Statesman research

 

 

Cherie Christmas

Tony Blair's Christmas card was the subject of conversation. Gordon Brown stepped down as an MP with effect from the next election.


December 3 2014

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