Owen Smith?
Local boy, of course....
well, Barry Island, close enough!
Failed in his bid
to save the Muni Arts Centre :
rumours he even volunteered
to dress up in a tutu
and do an Ed Balls
in a money-raising spectacular.
Failed in his bid
to oust Jeremy Corbyn ;
nobody really convinced
he is any more left-wing
than a line of Kinnocks.
But succeeded in his dream
to make a Tate By The Taff
in his constituency of Pontypridd.
You can view it from the bridge:
once a dilapidated precinct
but now some of the best exhibits
since those jagged rocks
and mould of a house won the Turner Prize....
not to mention the elephant shit.
Heavy irony of the Welsh Government sign,
rubbled wasteland symbolic of austerity,
the derelict remains of a shop
representing the emptiness of consumerism,
scattered litter the imagery
of the effluence of society.
The unacknowledged, unsung inspiration
for all of this, the local MP :
it should be renamed 'SMITHDOM',
a tribute to his creativity.