Poems of the Week

Oligarchnemesis

by Alex Steelsmith

“Cold War-style chill settles over Russia…”
—The Los Angeles Times

Seven Russian oligarchs “are barred from conducting any financial transaction in the UK.”
—The Guardian

Jiggery-pokery,
Russia’s top oligarchs
shiver to learn what a
Cold War can do:

Chill their transactions and
unsympathetically
freeze their gargantuan
assets off too.