CLOSE HARMONY
When young, I’d had an ambition
To join a close harmony group.
But, alas, as soon as I open my mouth,
I sound like an infant with croup
But I went for the audition,
Having gargled with TCP
And practiced my scales religiously,
From A right up to G
They listened quite politely
As I went through my repertoire.
Though I knew from their pained expressions,
I wasn’t going far
They said they’d never heard a voice
With quite so much vibrato.
But the only vacancy they had
Was for something called a castrato.
I looked it up on Google,
Before I went to bed,
And immediately decided
To be a poet instead
7th September 2021
"H" contest - new or old poems
Sponsor - Constance Le France
Categories:
tcp, music,
Form: Rhyme
So it was disinfectant after all, that's really bats,
the plan was simple - we can get rid of the democrats;
why didn't someone else think of that, perhaps they did,
but not good enough - only a one no-trump bid.
It opens a new wardrobe for future use,
bleach, turpentine, meths would all hang loose,
perhaps we could use Brasso for the *******,
or even grease from the lap-dancer's pole.
My mother had a cure for all ills, no pills,
Calamine, TCP, Lloyd's cream, pain it kills,
Milk of magnesia, germolene, Andrews for liver,
Benolyn cough mixture, if your throat starts to quiver.
She said: 'Get upstairs and wash yourself with disinfectant,'
now we can go further and use it as an expectorant.
Categories:
tcp, community, dark, fear,
Form: Sonnet
802.11 I got it from,
the electro magnetic spectrum.
We can hash it all out and add speed & security,
AES, 3G, 4G, LTE.
Whatever smartphone is modular and popular,
wireless networks, triangulated towers.
It's known to drain your power so you're charging, surfing,
try to find the combination to keep it working.
So we can watch twerking videos, and get spammed,
#twitter, facebook, pinterest, instagram.
TCP/IP and Multi-layered protocols,
7 is the magic number to understand it all.
Physical, datalink, network, transport, session, presentation, application layer,
The seven-layer OSI (Open Systems Interconnect) is the standard integrator.
Categories:
tcp, education, poetry, technology,
Form: Rhyme