Apparatchick

for Susan Hampton

Set upon by "valkyries",
by "vixen", "vipers", and "viragos"
our friend, the paranoid, declares
he very soon will "tweak the nose"

of one "high-shouldered bitch" who is
"a mistress of the rhetoric".
"Obsequious". "obscure" and "dull",
"a genuine a-parrot-chick"

who's got the job that "should be mine".
"Blonde" ... "postmodern" ... "feminist".
As most of us scrape back out chairs
he goes on slowly getting pissed.