Christmas Future

Calibri’s banned

By Marco’s folk:

In Maga-Land,

They don’t do woke

Or DEI,

So Marco wants

To be the guy

For serif fonts—

To switch to Times

New Roman, which

More loudly chimes

With MAGA’s pitch …

But should it sound

To Marco’s prez

Like seraphs round

Each word he says

(By heaven sent),

Could Trump restart—

Like Scrooge, repent—

And grow a heart?

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, the Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. The poem was prompted by the BBC story, “Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over ‘wasteful’ Calibri.”