CATEGORY: Rhyming POLEMICS

Jon Kaufman11th June 2020

History Lesson

In the beginning, at the dawn of time, all energy exploded into matter
And the silence of nothing was spectacularly disturbed
With a splish and a splosh and a splatter
Though this miracle has probably happened a million times before
Where perfect stillness becomes a noisy cosmic chatter.
We like to imagine we are singularly unique
All the better, our fragile egos for to flatter.
Furthermore, there may well be an infinite series of universes
Some bigger, some smaller, some fatter
But I would humbly suggest, at this point in our journey
That these speculative questions of cosmological theory,
Absolutely and definitively don’t matter.

CATEGORY: Rhyming POLEMICS

History Lesson

Lockdown

Plague Days

FIFA’s Russian Roulette

Brexit Blues

Brexit, Brexit from May to December Brexit scheming is all I remember Productivity rising, trade flat-lining A time for cheering a time for crying.

Shooting in the US of A

I’m shooting from the hip I’m shooting with red hot lead I’m shooting at the passers-by I’m shooting till they’re dead.

Monument for Margaret Thatcher

They’ve been talking about a statue for Mrs Thatcher Remember her they called her both the Iron Lady and the school milk snatcher Remember her she said this lady isn’t for turning Hold on a moment, is that the sickening smell of something burning?

Ping Philosophy

Pick up a bat if you see it Have a quick game if you feel it Take on the world if you dare it If the ball comes your way then just ping it

Ping Philosophy

Pick up a bat if you see it Have a quick game if you feel it Take on the world if you dare it If the ball comes your way then just ping it

Algorithms

I’ve been reading Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus – every line And it’s got me thinking and a fretting about the future of mankind I’ve been thinking that maybe we humans have truly passed our prime And that Artificial intelligence is going to leave us humans far behind.

The New Enlightenment

We’re living through a second brutal dark age With renewed bigotry, superstition and terror. And if you thought we’re on a preordained, exponential path of progress Then I suspect you might be making a fundamental error.

Jeremy Corbyn The Criminal

Migrants

The distinction between refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants Is as repulsive as racism itself. The very essence of humanity is migration Nobody wants to be left on the shelf.

Corbynomics: TRWNBT

There’s a man going round who’d rather jaw jaw than carelessly set off a nuclear war war. But they call him a threat to national security.

Heroes

Heroes are people we know nothing about I should know, I’ve followed a few in my time Heroes are substitutes for I’m not quite sure what And we follow them without reason or rhyme.

Ode to the NHS

We are told that Churchill was our greatest all-time leader Inspiring the nation to combat the marauding Nazi hoards But the post war British voters soon sent Churchill packing And put the Labour Party in charge of the Westminster board.

That Damned Dialectic

From the humblest sub-atomic particle To the entirety of the Universe itself A remorseless struggle of opposites Creating unity by infinite stealth.

Table Tennis: A Love Letter

Tennis on a nine by five table Ping pong by its colloquial name The second most played sport in the world The Victorians would be amazed by its fame.

Heathrow and Harmondsworth

This is something of a David and Goliath story But it’s certainly not as simple as say Labour versus Tory This is a cross party story for every season It’s a classic tale of corporate greed versus civic reason.

Ode to Austerity

Most born into poverty, a few born into wealth. Bizarrely the wealthy get wealthier through cunning and through stealth. Rich kids flying high, backed up by daddy and mummy, Everybody knows that money goes to money.

Olympic Legacy – Going, Going, Gone (Part 2)

They said it would inspire a generation To run and to jump and to swim. They promised it would motivate our youngsters And the fight against obesity would begin.

Brexit, Brexit from May to December
Brexit scheming is all I remember
Productivity rising, trade flat-lining
A time for cheering a time for crying.

I’m shooting from the hip
I’m shooting with red hot lead
I’m shooting at the passers-by
I’m shooting till they’re dead.

They’ve been talking about a statue for Mrs Thatcher
Remember her they called her both the Iron Lady and the school milk snatcher
Remember her she said this lady isn’t for turning
Hold on a moment, is that the sickening smell of something burning?

Pick up a bat if you see it
Have a quick game if you feel it
Take on the world if you dare it
If the ball comes your way then just ping it

Pick up a bat if you see it
Have a quick game if you feel it
Take on the world if you dare it
If the ball comes your way then just ping it

I’ve been reading Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus – every line
And it’s got me thinking and a fretting about the future of mankind
I’ve been thinking that maybe we humans have truly passed our prime
And that Artificial intelligence is going to leave us humans far behind.

We’re living through a second brutal dark age
With renewed bigotry, superstition and terror.
And if you thought we’re on a preordained, exponential path of progress
Then I suspect you might be making a fundamental error.

The distinction between refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants
Is as repulsive as racism itself.
The very essence of humanity is migration
Nobody wants to be left on the shelf.

There’s a man going round who’d rather jaw jaw
than carelessly set off a nuclear war war.
But they call him a threat to national security.

Heroes are people we know nothing about
I should know, I’ve followed a few in my time
Heroes are substitutes for I’m not quite sure what
And we follow them without reason or rhyme.

We are told that Churchill was our greatest all-time leader
Inspiring the nation to combat the marauding Nazi hoards
But the post war British voters soon sent Churchill packing
And put the Labour Party in charge of the Westminster board.

From the humblest sub-atomic particle
To the entirety of the Universe itself
A remorseless struggle of opposites
Creating unity by infinite stealth.

Tennis on a nine by five table
Ping pong by its colloquial name
The second most played sport in the world
The Victorians would be amazed by its fame.

This is something of a David and Goliath story
But it’s certainly not as simple as say Labour versus Tory
This is a cross party story for every season
It’s a classic tale of corporate greed versus civic reason.

Most born into poverty, a few born into wealth.
Bizarrely the wealthy get wealthier through cunning and through stealth.
Rich kids flying high, backed up by daddy and mummy,
Everybody knows that money goes to money.

They said it would inspire a generation
To run and to jump and to swim.
They promised it would motivate our youngsters
And the fight against obesity would begin.