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.Amanda Gorman poem is now a permanent part of the written record of the Biden #Inauguration ... Here's how it appears in the Congressional Record:

The EU, enraged and in fits, Is tearing a drug firm to bits, For jabs that it thought It had paid for and bought, Were actually sold to the Brits. Mick Twister

Is monetisation a curse, And will it make Twitterland worse? While Twitter's top scholars Want dollars for follers, To poets, the charge is perverse. theguardian.com/technology/202…

If your Monday mood’s all sulk and curse Let Berlaymonster turn it from bad to verse berlaymonster.com/post/we-never-…

~ A haiku, for Boris ~ Breaches of the law Are never black-and-white things So you must Sue Gray

The popular online game 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩, Must now leap a bit of a ⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩. If charging a fee After once being free Its success may rapidly ⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩.

It was bad enough that the novel is dead, now Bono has gone and murdered poetry.

Mick Twister An MP (whose name is unknown) Was caught watching porn on his phone. The House is offended: He may be suspended, And then must debate on his own.

The people we all know as Finns, Stay neutral when trouble begins, But now that a neighbour Turned angry invader, The Outs are now very much Ins.

In Brussels you can park anywhere you like if it gets you there quicker Leave your car on the sidewalk or under a cherry-picker

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Monday's PM is weak and frit, Tuesday's PM is full of shit. Wednesday's PM is always wrong, Thursday's PM won't last long. Friday's PM is lying and lying, Saturday's PM parties hard while you're dying. And the PM on the Sabbath day Gets trolled on Kuenssberg, and then runs away.

Craig Winneker With each day that comes, daylight time is extended, soon the sun follows. That is my haiku of hope.

Getting to bike shop to pick up bike is a pain during public transit strike in driving wind sleet rain me no like

The Brussels drizzle — down payment on flowers plus fluorescent forest

In a sort of Guardian latter-day version of Pale Fire, this poem is really good but the comments are where the real action is Poem of the week: The Bin-Men Go on Strike by Raymond Queneau theguardian.com/books/2023/apr…

You've got to keep at it #writing

Proof that both AI and LinkedIn must be stopped cc The State of LinkedIn

📜Think-tanker's lament: a poetic interlude... The pundit’s chest tightens as Europe far-Rightens and the Centre drifts further away What happens next is anyone’s guess as there’s not enough Left to say