Mugabe's Mausoleum

As millions starve, Mugabe builds a £2m shrine
(from the Daily Telegraph)

“Work has already begun on a museum, dedicated to the life and dubious achievements of the 83-year-old president, in his home district of Zvimba, 65 miles west of the capital, Harare.
Once complete, the museum will house Mugabe's prison letters, photographs from the war in the Sixties and Seventies against the minority white government of Ian Smith, his old clothes and copies of his famously fiery, and often intemperate, speeches.
The museum will also display some of the many gifts the president has received during his 27 years in office from those who have enjoyed his patronage - most of them members of his ruling Zanu PF party.
Pride of place is expected to be taken by a 16 ft-long stuffed Nile crocodile - a recent birthday gift from Mugabe's loyal ministers and officials.”


Mugabe’s Mausoleum

Mugabe, Blair both long in power
Approach at last their final hour
Both of them have stayed too long
They both ignored the final gong
That rang out loud across the land
Of both their countries, hand in hand
At last they near the final fence
They both desire prolonged pretence
That we will all recall they ruled
So well, but we will not be fooled
But now the difference ‘tween these two
Is coming clear to me and you
Blair will now be harshly judged
With legacy now somewhat smudged
But Muggers knows just how to twist
The Truth and thus confound the list
Of crimes he did against the nation
So now he lays the first foundation
Of a shrine that will him praise
With tokens, gifts put in displays
But pride of place a crocodile
Migrator from the far off Nile
Will this dictator represent
With all his lies and false intent
What better choice to memorise
This fiend who came to terrorise
The people that he said he’d lead
But turned their corpses into feed
For his greedy appetite
That swallows all both black and white


I’m pleased that he has turned out thus
To prove to all, that those of us
Who cast our doubts that he could rule
Have been proved right, although it’s cruel
The world needs some satanic curses
To show results when Good reverses
So in Mugabe’s burial crypt
Will lie the lowest Man has dipped

Chris Higginson
2nd Provocative Verse