
‘Condemnation’ and other poems
By: Philipp Ammon
Condemnation
Cleese is a racist
Just as Trump
Evil
An old white man
Communion
Join
Two minutes
Hate
Find
The racist
The sexist
The ageist
The ableist
The bigot
Find the foe
He is
Everywhere
He is
Hideous
Devious
He won’t tell
He is
You know
Find the crime
Make the conjunction
Find the link
The link exists
Dig deeper
Obtain victimhood
Find the link
To a victim
You are one
Feel
They
Have wronged you
You are right
You are the righteous
Not right-wing
That’s sure
Redemption
They must
Redeem
They
Owe
You
Play this card
House of Cards
Woke
Wrath
Of the righteous
Identify
Mankind’s
Enemy
Now
Bliss
Please
Give us
Safe space
Say all
Peace and safety
Never withhold
Never restrain
We must be
At ease
At once
Thy kingdom come
The Nude
Politics as it really is,
The naked truth:
That’s Donald Trump.
Enterprise of England
Great and most fortunate
By George!
What an Armada!
Three lions
Better than Brexit
Never surrender
Roar
We fought them on the field
What a fine hour!
Nothing is lost
Almost victorious, happy and glorious
We sing with heart and voice:
Three lions
By George!
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Philipp Ammon is a historian and philologist. He studied at Kazan and Moscow State University and the Tbilissi Institute of Classical Philology and received his Master’s degree from Free University and Humboldt University of Berlin. He has published a book on Russo-Georgian history: Georgia between statehood and Russian occupation. The roots of the conflict.