I don't have any problems consdering this as light verse. It's funny and bouncy, and if it's also mordant - so? So is Edward Gorey. And many others.
I would have a problem, however (which is academic, since I've already voted) in considering this as a competition winner. It's too derivative. I wasn't familiar with the MacNiece poem until John called it to our attention, but - even though the content is quite different - this one tracks it too closely in structure for me to award points for originality.
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