Go on surprise me! Let something
happen that is NOT totally predictable.
Like England saving the first Australia Test.
(Ok, you surprised me with that one…)
But let’s NOT have the next set of NHS failures;
or here in the West End, someone doing Big Brother -
THE MUSICAL – as yet more raw sewage
churns out into the cormorant-courted Thames.
Oh please, let’s have more of the unforeseen;
things that awaken the senses and the soul.
Gordon Brown for starters, renouncing
politics which he finds too morally corrupt.
Motor cars utterly banned from city streets
as they cause cancer
and weakening of the legs and next
all advertising vetoed for at least a year.
Let’s have free bus and tube passes
for everyone who hates their job:
Tesco’s closing down for good
as the management retires to the Maldives -
to watch the rising sea-levels. Let’s have
police sirens that play the Match of the Day
theme across a deserted Soho, grave-quiet
as the five day power restrictions bite!
And Lo! the BBC finally kicks out
balanced non-opinion in favour of obvious truths;
releases Humphries, Dimbleby and Paxman
Hooray! and let’s hear it for the Royal Family
who’ve made a bid for Newcastle United FC
and clap those egg-faced news-casters
since they were directed to treat
their tele-prompters as operatic recitative…
Oh please let us all be surprised
again and again
and again and then
we’ll see what follows!
12 Jul. 2009
Nice one Fred.