
Aftermath
A poetic lament exploring Brexit, political uncertainty and economic anxiety, reflecting on how major political change affects ordinary people and their daily lives.
I see the Chief Economist towering over Brexit, as the common person reviles in benign betrayal while lifting toadstools in Tescos. Lamenting experiment of overhaul: the imperfect structural coherence we knew reconstructed in beguiling new guise. The downward pound bumbles through the market, prices hiked and experts forecasting this exit who may? Politics cloaked in dark obfuscation, deflation apparently self-fulfilling, and this House of Cards they are building dramatically collapses again.

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