Sonnet For Realism In Action

SONNET FOR REALISM IN ACTION OR: If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly We’re told with smug assurance patronising That if a job’s worth doing, then do well with it But if we doubt our faultless realising We’re inclined to say in hopelessness ‘to hell with it!’ With projects of high promise I could regale ya Begun with soaring hope at their inception But ended, quit because of fear of failure To live to standards asking for perfection An alternate motto, different course to plough ‘Keep hope and faith then maybe bye and bye If we press on, we’ll muddle through somehow We might as well go on and give it a try’ Here’s a slogan more realist than proverbial ‘If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth it’ - no clause adverbial