Poems of the Week

Bloody Ty-rant

by Alex Steelsmith

Political analyst Valery Solovei said one of Putin’s health issues was “of a psycho-neurological nature…
[T]he Russian news outlet Proekt also claimed Putin had been using an alternative therapy that involves
bathing in blood extract from severed deer antlers.”
MercoPress

Tubbily-scrubbily
Vlad the Barbarian
rants as he stews in his
sanguinous mix,

“Never mind modern-day
psychoneurology;
nothing is wrong that a
bloodbath can’t fix!”