Protest
When feelings are strong
About folly or wrong,
It helps to relieve them in verse or in song.
It’s very much better
Than writing a letter -
The papers print hundreds, all mostly too long.
If you write it in verse
it has got to be terse -
You'1l run out of rhymes if you go on and on.
Restraining your ardour
Is often much harder
But people may read it right through to the end -
So learn to be brief
It is such a relief
For long-winded blether sends folk round the bend!
DB