My eye was taken by a post about “Subversive Verse –

A Night of Edgy Poetry”; I thought I could do worse.

I found the place, I got a drink and paid the entrance fee

Then settled down to listen to this edgy poetry.

A bloke got up to waft his arms and thus began his rants

And followed up his diatribe with more that’s just as pants.

A second poet took the stage.  Let’s see what she would say,

“Fuck the Tories. Fuck the police” and “Fuck Theresa May.

Fuck the multinationals” and “Fuck the Bosses” too.

“Donald Trump’s an orange twat. So fuck the US too”.

For every poet all night long that’s just the way it went

Not a one would buck the trend with no-one in dissent.

I laboured through this stoically, a real conformist slog

It would have been more “edgy” here with Boris or Rees-Mogg.

It struck me as so very “safe”, this bland conformity

I found this whole “subversive” thing a bit mainstream for me.