You cannot be serious! A sonnet?
The W.I.? To write upon it?
Jam and Jerusalem? All that folly?
Annual subscription? All that lolly?
And what’s it for, I ask you,
what’s it for?
Big hats in Albert Hall? It’s such a bore.
Why must we keep funding
Denman College?
They have no prerogative on
knowledge -
It’s easier and cheaper at the
Tech.!
Seventy years? So what!
Well - what the heck!
It doesn’t do what it set out to
do;
It’s gone all middle class and
rather ‘U’.
Still, since the creature has
survived at all,
Snuff out seventy candles - have a
ball!
(March,
1991)
