Cruella Haterman's declaration that being homeless is a lifestyle choice got my goat. And it being Guy Fawkes day...
Remember, remember
the fifth of November
and raise a pint glass to old Guy
Who'd like to dismember
each moronic Member
and hoist them all into the sky.
for I disremember
that ever an ember
of intellect may be yet found
in any pretender
to Westminster's tenure
whose puerility doth us astound.
I never quite understood the Guy Fawkes celebration - did it commemorate the plot or the failure? I thought the point was that he didn't succeed, not that he had the guts to try...
ReplyDeleteNice poem :-)
Shouldn't it be puerility in the last line?
It was seized on by the public as a substitute for the no-longer celebrated All Souls, with added fireworks, and poor old Guy commemorated only in being yearly burned in effigy. From which 'to look a guy' to be in mismatched clothes, a figure of fun. I can't say I approve of the idea of blowing up parliament, though I do sympathise with the cause of the oppressed Catholics. One of those issues of the day as contentious and as mismanaged as the Gaza strip problem nowadays.
DeleteI was just peeved because of that ruddy Braverman woman.
And yes, I mis-spelled it.