Some People Make The Wrong Choices...


(clerihew and P.S.)


Salman’s ‘Satanic Verses’
brought curses
from the Ayatollah
wallah.


(Runcie’s meeting with the Pope
offered equal scope).

(November, 1989)




...Or Other People Make Choices For Them



For Ceaucescu
there was no rescue;
could there be a similar shortage of
Gorbachev?

(Christmas, 1989)