Good God, Roger. It has to be real! Mine is a verse. The stuff about John Snow is true. He won an Ashes series for us, though I would say (snobbishly) that his poems are NBG. But hell, when did I win an Ashes series?
Cliché Contest
One of the unpublished verses of John Snow, poet and England fast bowler.
It’s a dream that’s come true and it’s happened to you.
You are literally over the moon.
But it’s so in your face. Put yourself in my place.
You’d be crazy to prick the balloon.
So you do as you ought. It’s a question of sport
And you have to be there for your mates.
For there’s only one way, at the end of the day,
If you want to be one of the greats.
At the moment of drama, it’s crisis, it’s karma.
You know when you’ve got to walk tall.
Stand up and be counted is what it’s amounted
To. Play up and stay on the ball.
Sure I’m doing the biz when I say how it is.
I’m a winner at this point in time.
As a fast-bowling poet, well wouldn’t you know it,
I naturally tell it in rhyme
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