Poetry please! February 22
This week’s poem comes from Graham Allum - it’s called Lines for King Edmund, Martyr and the Rightful Patron Saint of England.........Inna Dub Stylie
In 869 the Vikings came
And come on with a beef.
Ready for a rumble
And armed up to the teeth.
“We gonna smack you Saxons.”
The Vikings shout and sing.
“We gonna burn your houses down
And jack your Saxon bling.”
But King Ed
Stand up
And said:
“No.”
“We are the Saxon Massive
What you Vikings doin’ here?
All our furniture is Saxon
We ain’t buyin’ no IKEA.
We don’t eat Danish bacon
We like British pork
So feed it to your Viking bruvs
Up there in bleeding Yor....vik
It makes us sick.
So be quick.
And go!
Innit tho”
Then them Vikings start a mashup
And Edmund he went down.
And all the Anglo possie
End up groanin’ on the ground.
And they shot him full of arrers
Because he showed them guts.
They made a quiver of his liver
And turned his butt into the Butts.
And Ed
He was dead
It took ‘em days to find his head.
A wolf was guarding it tho.
That wolf was surely tempted
To snack his ears an’ ting
If they’d left it any longer
He’d have been The Burger King.
But that Turkish geezer George
An English bloke he ain’t.
So kick him and his dragon out
And make Ed our patron saint.
Yo! Biggin’ up Edmund!
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