| 4 July |
Something of Nothing |
I’m doing Saturday Live tomorrow. I’ve already written my topical poem ( - at the start of the programme the poet of the day reads a short verse about anything in the news that takes their fancy.) To be honest topicality doesn’t come naturally to me and I ask my nearest and dearest ‘What’s topical? What’s topical?’ with increasingly irritating frequency. Yesterday I appended the question to an e-mail to Elvis McGonagall and he write back: ‘Kylie picked up an OBE’. That was enough for me. Better than the credit crunch, the price of oil or Brangelina’s imminent caesarian. So I wrote a quick Kylie poem and now I don’t know if I dare read it. Do you want to hear it? That’s a rhetorical question, obviously.
A bit of froth for Kylie
She popped to the Palace for her OBE
– The Order of the Bubbly Elf –
She’s been plucky, plucky, plucky
(And we’re glad she’s got her health)
Yes. That was it. Tell me, honestly - no, really, I need to know your opinion, for what it’s worth, what do you think? Should I read it? Or should I do the sensible mature thing and step back to the drawing board while there’s still time…?