Expat-poëzie

Iron Curtain

Welded across eastern borders

It never appeared

In military magazines

Or in Home and Garden sections

Of top department stores

Spies and double agents

Ghosted through secret cracks

Like Doctor Who

Tumbling through time

It didn't really exist, but could not be ignored

A fearsome construction

Solid metal sheets

Of pure paranoia

Collaborators coveted that cold steel

Agitators were ushered through back doors

World leaders often gathered together

Their chests covered in collections

Of shiny, metal, military decorations

Nothing compared to that curtain of iron

A fitting design for the Cold War

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Watching TV with Mum

I don't watch much TV these days

Too much screen time feels like a waste

But when I sit and watch the news on TV with

mum

I blame everything on the Tories. She blames

Putin

If Spider-Man Were Ukrainian 

by Andy Szpuk 

ISBN 9781797566863 

Cover Art by Evgenia Osmani