Humor Poetry posted May 28, 2020 |
A cruel parody
How they Brought the Virus ...
by Pantygynt
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This is a parody of the narrative poem by Robert Browning 'How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix'. In reality there was no news, good or bad and Browning only wrote in order to flex his anapestic muscles.
I apologise if this does not make much sense to those outside the UK but recently the Chief adviser to our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, burst the Covid-19 Guidelines wide open by driving 250 miles, while displaying symptoms of the virus, with his wife and child, from London (which is just north-west of Kent to Durham, which is a few miles north of Durham, for 'child care reasons'. During his stay they drove a further 60 mile round trip to Barnard Castle (30 miles south west of Durham) to 'see if I could see well enough to drive back to London' (is there a non sequitur hiding somewhere in this statement?) thus committing an offence in that he knowingly drove on the public road while suffering defective vision.
This junketing caused an outcry in the press but the man refuses to resign and Boris does not seem prepared to sack him.
I felt this called for a bit of humorous versification. The challenge I set myself was to keep the rhyming sounds as close to the original as possible. The original poem can be found via this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/poems/how_they_brought_the_good_news_from_ghent_to_aix.shtml
No Land Rover Discoveries were damaged in the making of this poem.
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and 2 member cents. I apologise if this does not make much sense to those outside the UK but recently the Chief adviser to our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, burst the Covid-19 Guidelines wide open by driving 250 miles, while displaying symptoms of the virus, with his wife and child, from London (which is just north-west of Kent to Durham, which is a few miles north of Durham, for 'child care reasons'. During his stay they drove a further 60 mile round trip to Barnard Castle (30 miles south west of Durham) to 'see if I could see well enough to drive back to London' (is there a non sequitur hiding somewhere in this statement?) thus committing an offence in that he knowingly drove on the public road while suffering defective vision.
This junketing caused an outcry in the press but the man refuses to resign and Boris does not seem prepared to sack him.
I felt this called for a bit of humorous versification. The challenge I set myself was to keep the rhyming sounds as close to the original as possible. The original poem can be found via this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/poems/how_they_brought_the_good_news_from_ghent_to_aix.shtml
No Land Rover Discoveries were damaged in the making of this poem.
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