NO CALL FOR IT

 

 

not much call for

Bismarck and the Entente Cordiale

in these parts I suggest

the Civil Service Exams

 

small feet run in my family really

for reference only do you own

a suit solid ladder to a pension

one day these facts won’t

 

need you the assassination of Franz

Ferdinand by the Black Hand Gang led

through various convoluted alliances

to Auschwitz and the Post-War German Miracle

 

discuss

 

how are you with numbers I suggest

accountancy and at the end

you’ll have letters after your

voices sing on street corners but

 

they shouldn’t concern you clever

enthusiastic young chap like history

of the cotton what we have courses

in office skills alienation of

 

the educated working class they hate

you if you’re no call for that

small feet really no call for

father’s factory shut punk rock and the

 

Russo-

Japanese War

will butter no

parsnips round here