Bully
Baby-toe-size-brained bully, get this:
Up behind me is size you can’t miss—
Large, Canadian-weight,
Lumps of prime real estate …
You’ve a whole lotta room there to kiss!
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. In 2025 he won the Children’s Unpublished category of the Eyelands Book Awards with Flora’s Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud. The poem was prompted by the ABC story “‘Bully’: Feud erupts between Trump and Ontario’s Doug Ford over US-Canada trade war.”