I'VE never been fond of poetry since the days I tried to write it at school and was a complete flop. I once copied a verse out of Bunty or one of the girls' mags for my homework -- and the teacher thought it was so good she wanted to put it in the school magazine. Tut! tut! I never did confess. Sorry Miss Smale.
However, I just had to include this little ditty I spotted in the Wigan and Leigh Pensioners' Link newsletter. All mobile phone haters will agree:
I am not a bore, I'm sure of that
And do not care to wrangle
But hearing other's idle chat
Just sets my nerves a-jangle
They're on the bus and on the stairs
There's one on every corner
In coffee shops and market squares
And even in the sauna!
I'd like to snatch them all away
And stamp them in the gutter
Although I know they're here to stay
(and someone's bread and butter)
They ring and buzz, some play a tune
I'm nearly half-demented
Oh how I wish the mobile phone
Had never been invented.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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