Spokesman

- for the over sixties.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not the vengeful sort
but when I see that woman on TV
I want to punish her. I had a tempting thought,
this entertaining little fantasy:
I saw her naked, dragged across this land,
where folk abused her, throwing faecal waste.
That wasn’t meant to hurt, you understand –
it’s what I’d call a cellular distaste.
My daughter’s disapproval makes the news
and feminists are fuming about men.
Though all I’ve done is simply air my views
it seems I’m on the naughty step again.
An old white male, bound to take the blame
-              but everybody my age thinks the same.