Sausages

by Dave Bradley

Tuesday 15th March 2011 3:49 pm

Don't tell me what's in a sausage

or found under a toilet seat

I don't want to know what lives in my gut

I'd rather not know what I eat.

I don't want to hear

What inhabits my comb

Nor learn of creepy-crawlies

infesting my home.

Keep me ignorant

of what I'm breathing

or what down the plughole

might be seething.

They say there's millions on my head

and even billions in the bed.

Why not keep the figures to yourselves?

Why the compulsion to dig and delve?

They say Korea's run by a monster -

Was it North or South, which one?

Burma's run by the army,

People there don't have much fun.

Libya's in a mess at the moment,

Darfur's the worst of the bunch

I'm turning off the news, I can't be arsed,

There's sausages for lunch.

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<Deleted User> (7164)

Thu 17th Mar 2011 13:12

I'm with Isobel on this :-)
The way it reads to me sounds non-judgemental even though it is meant to be ironic? (in the sense of having a go)
It would be interesting if you perhaps added an audio to portray your actual intention?

ps I love sausages too :-)

Cate Greenlees

Wed 16th Mar 2011 13:39

Clever use of irony to get a very pertinant point over about the state of our world today.
Ignorance is bliss?
Cate xx

<Deleted User> (8943)

Wed 16th Mar 2011 10:56

Light hearted and I agree, I don't want to know either & if we lived in a too sterile environment we get terribly sick - germs, bugs and those creepy-crawlies anre good for you :) x

Andy N

Wed 16th Mar 2011 08:08

can be read several ways this, dave to me but the obvious meaning to me 'i can't be bothered knowing' brigade (which i guess is closeish to 'i don't want to know' brigade).

really enjoyed it however in particular 'They say there's millions on my head

and even billions in the bed.

Why not keep the figures to yourselves?

Why the compulsion to dig and delve?'

Keep em coming,bud..

melanie coady

Tue 15th Mar 2011 20:23

ferfreshing hun xx

Isobel

Tue 15th Mar 2011 17:25

It can be read both ways Dave - I'm probably with Philipos - the 'I don't want to know' brigade wouldn't understand or have knowledge of the issues you are talking about anyway.

The poem reflects well the people who know but are weary of that knowledge.

Dave Bradley

Tue 15th Mar 2011 16:17

Not sure what you're saying Philipos - I'm actually having a go at the 'I don't want to know' brigade here. Maybe I've not made that clear enough - might pull this

Philipos

Tue 15th Mar 2011 16:06

Just the sort of humour we need with all this sorrow around and we think alike - somebody told me that ear-mites have ear-mites - great poem

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