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A Right Royal Circus
a villanelle
Roll up! Roll up! Come hear the desperate call
Of sparkless Markle and her spurned buffoon.
With pleas for privacy, they welcome all.
They welcome all like flies upon a wall
To witness tears—a crocodile monsoon.
Roll up! Roll up! Come hear their desperate call!
Hear snarky snitchers drunk on glitz and gall
Grousing in their mansion house cocoon.
With pleas for privacy, they welcome all.
See victims of a callous palace brawl,
A yowling mouth and tarnished silver spoon.
Roll up! Roll up! Come hear their desperate call!
Watch them wail and whine about their fall
From princely heights that promised them the moon.
With pleas for privacy, they welcome all.
Tune in to hear them bleat and bitch and bawl
On Netflix in a series airing soon.
Roll up! Roll up! Come hear their desperate call!
With pleas for privacy, they welcome all.
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Susan Jarvis Bryant has poetry published on Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, Light, Sparks of Calliope, and Expansive Poetry Online. She also has poetry published in TRINACRIA, Beth Houston’s Extreme Formal Poems anthology, and in Openings (anthologies of poems by Open University Poets in the UK). Susan is the winner of the 2020 International SCP Poetry Competition, and has been nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize.
I always enjoy reading your poems, Susan. I’m sure it’s a lot more fun than watching Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show.
Thank you, Susan. You confirmed my lack of interest in watching those two on Netflix.