Tuesday, July 1, 2014

for PATTAYA TRADER 231 (E)

CONQUERORS-AND-COLONIES-YES
Renamed New York
was New Amsterdam
when forced out the Dutch
by our Duke, an Englishman,
in the fight for America;
a fight for the New Land.

Many a country conquered,
many a country colonised,
many a country enslaved,
some shall say civillised.

That was our yesterdays.
It's now long-ago history.
Some still take liberties.
We give men liberty.

A-COCK-IN-THE-HENHOUSE
The henpecked cock,
his life is duller
than when he was
a young bird of colour.

Plucked his feathers
find the clucking wife.
Cock-a-doodle-doo?
His a cooped-in life.

DEAF-TO-YOUR-FEEDBACK
Change wavelengths? Girl you choose it.
Turn it up or turn it down. I no more hear music.
Speak high or speak low,
voice me like the radio.
Can't catch it. You'll too lose it.

THE-QUACKERY-AFTER-THE-SWANSONG?
It's the latest thing
in the sing-song-sing.
Put it on, put it on,
it's the latest singalong.

The lyric's same-old.
The band's newfold.
The music's ding-dong-ding.
To naive youths it's everything.

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