No Jam?

Note: Heathrow isn’t crowded, it’s wide

Open—if you avoid the wrong side.

Just keep left, as Brits do,

And no jam need ensue …

Mind those foreigners, or you’ll collide!

 

 

Happy

Happy Birthday, dear Andrew! You get

A surprise as your gift from the Met:

Party down at the nick

Playing quizzes we pick …

You will not wish to answer, we bet!

 

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 poems were prompted by two Guardian stories: Heathrow isn’t crowded, it’s travellers walking on the wrong side, boss says” and “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrest: how the ‘most shocking’ day unfolded.”