Brits

Britain‘s leading the world with the fat

Raft of Japanese street litter that

It picked up: Britain, prone

To get trash-talked, has shown

Stuff exists that Brits aren’t rubbish at!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO., the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the Reuters news story, “Britain wins litter-picking World Cup with load of rubbish.”