15 Apr The Poet Considers (Four)

I guess it can’t be easy living life in miniature –
You tend to get introspective and start looking too much in at yer:
‘Able was I ere I saw Elba.’
But at least Josephine didn’t go running up huge shoe bills like Imelda.

And I’ll say this for the Frenchman:
He had quite good taste in henchmen.
You wouldn’t have caught him concurring
With some bloated toad like Goering!
A creep like Hess
Would definitely have failed to impress!
Himmler?

Sim’lar!
And, as for Goebbels –
Ole ‘Boney’ would have simply fed him to the gerbils!

And what about Alexander, another so-called ‘Great’:
They reckon, with his sandals off, he stood about four foot eight!
Conquering the world, it seems, is the ambition of every midget –
Not to mention bumping off anyone who thinks you’re an eejit.

Genghis Khan, another nutter, spent his whole life stuck on a horse,
So it was difficult to measure him, of course.
God knows what moved him from man into monster to morph –
But, no doubt, in his sensitive youth some blunderer called him a dwarf.

All these psychos to the notion of world domination were wired –
And the most you can say about them is: they left little to be desired!