Great idea, Bugsy. What better way for poets to vent about an issue than to write practice poems about it?
Those po-faced American poets,
so dour and politically prim!
Deficient in irony, earnest and cautious,
they never compose on a whim.
Why can't they be more like the British?
You try to have fun and they spoil it.
The British are jolly and earthy and sprinkle
their poems with humor de toilet.
The British think sex is a riot,
well suited to doggerel verse.
Americans try to be grown-up about it,
which only makes everything worse.
Their heads are all up their own arses,
they never just say what they think.
Why can't they be more like the British, who tackle
the truth with a nudge and a wink.
But anyway, back to the topic.
Excuse me if this is seditious.
When competent people are sacked without notice
it tends to make people suspicious.
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