Sonnets 96 - 100
Politic’s Greasy Pole, July 2022 - II
Treating truth with wantonness
is like playing lip-service to the rules of sport
choosing those which impact less,
compliance to all a matter of last resort.
Does a regular audience with the Queen
guarantee veneration of esteemed
colleagues? For friends to deny what they had seen?
To sacrifice all once deemed
inviolable? Is that the opiate which led you to betray
honesty the way you did, to translate
it to another tongue, deflect criticism away
and turn dishonesty to a Department of State?
If so, what would be the Minister’s brief? Perhaps to sort
the chaff from the wheat in another redacted report.