It is a matter of course that a poem written by the official Poet Laureate immediately enters the canon of twenty-first century English literature.
Therefore the Olympian poem by Carol Ann Duffy, appearing on the front page of today's Guardian, deserves serious study (you might need to click on the image to enlarge it).
The last line quotes the Chancellor George Osborne.
The poem needs to be read several times before the meanings become apparent - and they will not be the immediate conclusions that this is about government spending.
Nick Cohen on his Twitter site is indulging in sniggering:
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