The Lecturer's Tale

[billy]

'What did you do in the riots, Dad?'

'I'm not mad --I stayed home
and looked after Mum;
Just like all the rest'

'What did you do in the riots, Bruv?'

I was engaged in a beautiful
and wonderful thing with Kates;
An other-worldly act of love'

'What did you do that week, Sonny?'

' I was-- I was -- on a sleep-over;
Yes -with one of my mates,
Everything was quiet. But -

Speaker, what did you do ?'

'Me, I gave the Capitalist bastards a bloody nose!
And what is more, to serve the buggers right,
I nicked a few of those!'

hi abu, great to see your poem.
1st off, i think this is good enough for the mild critique forum at the very least.

i like the way the poem turns on the speaker in the line before the last verse. it give what will become a common subject a great twist.
and i like the way he/she isn't just unbiased. it also fits in with the title but jars a little as to all but the last verse being about the family.
the pom proper has a sit-com feel about it which makes it feel funnier than it perhaps should. it's the main reason i like it.

did you mean keats in the following line;
and wonderful thing with Kates;