The Flight to Baku

Epigrammata LXVI

In the May of Twenty-Twenty Four
Iran's president became no more
When his helicopter failed
Iran thus mourned; it surely wailed
Elected another quite like him
Our old spooks must have felt dim
At this perhaps attempted coup
Failing hard on the follow-through
And once again, the world is new.

Author’s note: No voiceover today — circumstances did not permit.