I am confident this one fits the rubric though it will mean nothing to those whose memory of the product and whose love of cricket's most famous poem are less intense than mine.
But will Lucy accept the idea of parody? Or is it pastiche? And can someone explain the difference to me in really simple terms? I thought I knew but find knowledge declining with advancing years -- though opinions become more didactic by the day!
It is little I repair to the sweetshops of the modern folk
Though my inclinations there may blow.
It is little I repair to the sweetshops of the modern folk
Since they lack the unwrapped toffee blocks by Sharps which used to show
Just how dentistry for first teeth could reach sweetly painful heights.
Now what I see are user-friendly, neatly packaged flights
Of regimented wrappers holding pre-ordained-sized bites
As my childhood memories flicker to and fro,
To and fro:
O my hammered shards of stickjaw long ago.
Now I peer through sweetshop windows with a sense of sharp dismay
At the lack of dental challenge of the products on display.
And I stand there salivating for a too-long-bygone day
As my childhood memories flicker to and fro,
To and fro:
O my “Sharps The Word For Toffee” long ago.
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