OK. Here's my take on this. Or my nice take. I'm at work on my nasty one.
How Pleasant to Know Wendy Cope,
How pleasant to know Wendy Cope,
A poet of true popularity,
No dismal dispenser of dope
But a model of balance and clarity.
Who speaks to the tests of the times
In a language concise and untrendy?
Who is mistress of metres and rhymes?
My answer is totally Wendy.
Who speaks of the woe that is woman
In thrall to the mess that is man?
Who shows her condition is human?
Wendy Cope is the coper who can.
Let me give you a toast in dry sherry
To this model of Faith and of Hope,
With a Charity makes us all merry.
How pleasant to know Wendy Cope.
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