Don't Humour The Fool (aka Dinger Song)

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited September 2007 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
England’s as creatively sundered
As a seatown petty-smugglers’ hollow:
Local legends are distilled and then plundered,
For cheap narrative cliches to follow.
There’s a formula, for writing “the nation”:
An astrakhan collar and homburg;
A gin-sodden mock recitation
Of Osborne’s post-India humbug.

If you’ve ever to find a good jewel-cave again
Then stop whims of Brittania’s cool.
Flee de Quincy and Ascotted photofit men.
Find the new, and don’t humour the fool
(with the dinger)
Find the new, and don’t humour the fool
(he’s no singer)
Get new, and don’t humour
The
Fool.

(Just made that up that tonight, at a gig.)
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