A Flight of Fancy

The lasting lesson Johnson got from school?
Outrageous images should be the rule.
Weird parallels keep buzzing through his head –
not A and B so much as A and Z.

That’s why he likens warfare in Ukraine
to Brexit’s spat between Leave and Remain.
Russian disinformation did its work
in both, split families and went berserk
but Brexit is a dream which voters choose
whereas the freedom that Ukraine would lose
is all too real. When bombing stops, smoke clears
they’re left with wreckage in a vale of tears.
Ukraine’s a tragedy, Brexit’s a game –
but otherwise the two are just the same.