Lady Godiva

Here comes that there Lady Godiva,

riding down the wide-assed boulevard

of this crazy twenty-first century.

The figurehead of her profession,

she rides at the head of a procession

of twenty million YouTube followers

(and counting).

O! Nude jockey! Nekked equestrian!

Sowing a mixture of feminist seeds!

Poor Dobbin won't dare show his face again.

Put blinkers on her long-suffering steed!

She's an internet sensation,

a pre-eminent vlogger.

But, this being Coventry, we

pull her off her horse and flog her...

B.R. 26.05.2021

Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry.