There’s an elephant in the room, I hate these idiomatic phrases
But I’ve pushed the envelope and am appealing
Please don’t let the creature out
Or it will crash through our Glass ceiling

Clothes are next upon my list, Denim jeans now back in fashion
But only if they are both ripped and torn
And there they are, seen on stage and at special functions
When something much more suitable should be worn

My next dislike is the speed at which some people speak
Whatever happened to basic elocution?
A rush of words, and ill formed endings
There’s many a famous name I’d use, if needed for attribution

800 members of the House of Lords, 300 pounds a time
And this is just for signing in, and not for what they say
This goes for many Public servants too, and some MP’s as well
Who find mathematics difficult when separating expenses from their pay

Stand-up comedians, they just don’t do that, they will persist in moving
Some well-known performers, will not stand still, it really gets my goat
They prowl around the stage back to front and end to end
Searching for, or trying to remember their next anecdote
One more thing about performers when earning their easy money,
You don’t have to use offensive words in order to be funny.

I think that’s enough of my dislikes, you’ll have your own, which is enough
If I go on I may become one of those, and if that is so ‘Well Tough’

© Norman Dengate