Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Poetry Thursday 2 - Rather not #ToriesDestroyingOurCountry

 I know it's not political season but there are things that prey on the mind even in the silly season.



Rather Not

 

I’d rather read a telephone

directory than listen

to more excuses from a Tory.

 

Better to watch a cartoon about a dory,

or celebrate Newcastle glory,

bump along in the back of a lorry,

than consider the actions of a Tory.

  

More interesting to count every calorie,

or sleep in a teenage boy’s dormitory,

succumb to a request to clean lavatory,

than to acknowledge the success of a Tory.

 

Better to eat bugs with an aborigine,

or fail in everything academically,

swim in the dark pond in a quarry,

than to admit to ever voting Tory.

 

But there is such a complex history,

why millions voted them is admonitory,

choices they made were not mandatory,

however, why my friends?

Contradictory!

© David L Atkinson August 2023


God Bless 


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