Perspective Shiftz

"Cabinet minister Michael Gove missed an interview slot on BBC Radio 4's Today programme earlier after getting stuck in a lift.

The levelling up secretary missed his slot on Monday's show after an elevator in the BBC's Broadcasting House stopped working.

He was trapped in the lift for around half an hour."

- BBC News website, 10.01.2022

(i)

Perspective shifts

unlike Michael Gove,

stuck in a lift

in Broadcasting House.

Sadly, he is now at liberty.

The crowdfunding campaign

to keep dear old Mickey

permanently sealed in

never got off the ground floor

and he was duly freed

to transmit his utter garbage

over the ether.

(ii)

Personalities shift.

I am not the man I was

at the beginning of this poem,

nor am I the man

I will become.

I'm not even sure I yam what I yam,

not a Cornish pasty-faced impostor,

a simpering Cup-a-Superman.

Am I as hard as Crunchy Nut

or as sweet as Sugar Puff?

I hope that whatever I am,

in the end

it is enough.

B.R. 15.01.2022

Please lock me away and don't allow the day
here inside, where I hide with my loneliness.
I don't care what they say, I won't stay
in a world without Gove.

See also Why is Michael Gove?