Doggerel Fashion

[Doggerel - Poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect]

Silence in court!

Clerk of the court can you inform us,

Who’s the first case to come before us?

Yes your honour - I’m sorry to say-

The most serious case you’ll hear today.

The couple in the dock are today’s first case,

Caught  Doggerelling in a public place.

Disporting themselves on the ground,

Poetry books spread all around.

Together in a public park,

Reading Zephaniah and John Cooper Clarke.

Well you two, what do you have to say?

Admit you’re guilty right away?

Of that most heinous of crimes

Liking poetry that rhymes.

The Poetry Police found you, did they not?

Caught in a well know Doggerelling spot.

Tell the truth  -  don’t make it worse.

Have you been writing rhyming verse?

Don’t  tell me that we shouldn’t care.

That it’s just  a limerick here and there.

Its a dirty,  foul, perverted sect, 

 Metaphors mixed for comic effect.

You were caught with each other in a height of passion,

Writing poetry doggerel fashion.

Let me make it clear -  can you not see?

Thats not proper poetry.

Did you never think you might corrupt a minor?

Turn them into a poetic rhymer?

I’m sure you think its very clever,

To put two words that rhyme together.

Start of with just one simple rhyme,

Before long doing it every line.

A few lines rhyming here and there,

quite soon doing it everywhere.

Then once hooked find you cant get enough,

Become desperate for the rhyming stuff.

And just to add to your disgrace, 

You were doggerelling  in a public place.

Whatever gratification that you sought

Has now seen you brought before this court.

I know my duty and what I must do,

Its a custodial sentence for the pair of you.

And when  you come out. When  you’ve served your time,

You’ll see you’ve been saved from a life of rhyme!