CAD Education for Leisure censored!
Has everyone gone mad?!
Today they shot CAD!
No not shot, pulled out the plug
Shut down the life support, lifeline
Of the very thorn of English poetry
No not pulled, flushed down
Flushed down the bog
This is the world of
The 21st century
Millennium bug Melt down
This is the world of cern’s attempt
At God-style alchemy
Black holes
Small enough to swallow the Earth
This is the world where Mr. Brown
Leads our country
And Bush is a description
Of leadership gone mad!
No not down the bog
This is the world where SAT’s
Occasionally, on a good day
Get marked by cleaners
Education, education, negation!
Education for leisure
Measure for measure
Leisure is about all it will be fit for
Today we crown CAD
Poet laureate
Not mad
Not bad
Our national treasure
Moira
Fri 5th Sep 2008 22:38
Thanks Zuzanna!
Got fired up when I heard through a good friend today that Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" has been removed from the AQA syllabus, presumably through some cock-eyed linkage to (youth) knife crime in this country. Freedom of expression surely is the bottom line for us today?!
Your comments are very encouraging Zuzanna.
Write on,
Moira