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CAD Education for Leisure censored!

Has everyone gone mad?!

 

Today they shot CAD!

No not shot, pulled out the plug

Shut down the life support, lifeline

Of the very thorn of English poetry

No not pulled, flushed down

Flushed down the bog

This is the world of

The 21st century

Millennium bug Melt down

This is the world of cern’s attempt

At God-style alchemy

Black holes

Small enough to swallow the Earth

This is the world where Mr. Brown

Leads our country

And Bush is a description

Of leadership gone mad!

No not down the bog

This is the world where SAT’s

Occasionally, on a good day

Get marked by cleaners

Education, education, negation!

Education for leisure

Measure for measure

Leisure is about all it will be fit for

Today we crown CAD

Poet laureate

Not mad

Not bad

Our national treasure

◄ Farther than father can be

Sack the sat nav ►

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Moira

Fri 5th Sep 2008 22:38

Thanks Zuzanna!
Got fired up when I heard through a good friend today that Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure" has been removed from the AQA syllabus, presumably through some cock-eyed linkage to (youth) knife crime in this country. Freedom of expression surely is the bottom line for us today?!

Your comments are very encouraging Zuzanna.
Write on,

Moira

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Fri 5th Sep 2008 22:11

Hello Moira

Well we do have some good reading here within your poem. I love the political mingling with the present settings, the sadness of the World that basically gone mad. Thought provoking and very creative!!

Thank you,
Zuzanna

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