here goes nothing
Plug-Wiring Blues (W. H. Auden)
Into the neutral the blue wire goes.
Once it was black; things change I suppose.
The live one is brown. It used to be red,
Bringing to mind a decade long dead.
My wife is impatient. She wants the tv.
She likes Antiques Roadshow, doesn't like me.
A trivial task, but it's making me sweat.
I daren't pop out for a quick cigarette.
My neighbour gave up. He put on three stone.
Now the women leave him alone.
Earth is bi-coloured, yellow and green.
I'd rather be reading a men's magazine.
I'm missing a screw, but it's always the case.
First you lose love, then you lose face.
When I've done this I'll get out the car
And go for a drive, but not very far.
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