Just the Ticket

I have a proposal that will help avert a strike, Something that I think the RMT is going to like. The ticket office needn’t close, we could increase its function; It could sell Costa Coffee or a London Transport Luncheon, Incorporate the Post Office and other outlets...

Entrenched

I am right and you are wrong; You will say the same of me. Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, Each with their tradition But taking the position That they, alone, proclaim the truth And that they each have got the proof That their religion is correct,...

Nothing Known

Although I know a thing or two, I know nothing more than you Of how mankind came to be Part divine, part chimpanzee. Darwin told us of his theory, Which a lot of people query. They are called Creationists; Suddenly, we just exist. Darwin said we all evolved, But his...

Writing Shakespeare

Shakespeare had a way with words But didn’t know his Dick the Thirds, And though he’d travel outside Stratford He had not seen much past Catford. What history he knew was bitty, So they wrote Shakespeare by Committee; Men who knew of foreign shores, Of Danes,...

Circle

Trapped in a circle Have to get out Build up the pressure Force an eruption Through the perimeter Like a volcano Causing disruption Walk on the surface Round the parameter Of the circumference Back to the crater Through which I fall To where I started Inside the...