What should we use for
License and permission?
The capital’s now shut to
Our ambition —
The powder reeks
Of avarice and spice;
An aftershock
Of smoothly-covered vice —
A smothering of
Cabinets and lust,
A bit of happiness
Ground into dust,
A spatter and a slather
And a skein
Of words of populism
Turned
Insane