Poets desist such a headline could I resist? a chance missed. Royal Standard licensed for music but the word must not be heard. Unlicensed verse (Excuse me Sir, do you have a licence for this poem?) What could be worse? Makes one curse. The accuse
'Poets desist'
such a headline
could I resist?
a chance missed.
Royal Standard
licensed for music
but the word
must not be heard.
Unlicensed verse
(Excuse me Sir, do you have a licence for this poem?)
What could be worse?
Makes one curse.
The accused was heard to say,
in a declamatory sort of way,
some poems and verse, without
a licence for word or play.
A backing by guitar or drum,
banged or strummed,
might be a musical performance
and keep officials shtumm.
Compared to music is verse more inflammable?
Or will it cause riots or a crowd uncontrollable?
Surely even an apparatchik can see
that verse and rhyme must be allowable.
Petty? Of course not, who would think such a thing? After all rules is rules.
IAN ROBERTSON
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