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Gratuitous bog-standard doggerel

By G.C. Seabourne

OK, so it's gratuitous and non-legal,  but the Common (as muck) Lawyer blog is granting political asylum to the following neo-sonnet which would otherwise be unlikely to see the light of day. See what a boon the internet is to those with literary pretensions and unfashionable political ideas.

Private Transactions

You?re not ashamed to pay for it, you say,
And laugh off mumbled scruples I might raise:
It flourishes, despite po-faced, uptight
Attempts to stamp it out: I have no right
To criticise the purchase of what ought
To be given, whole-hearted, not greedily, seedily, bought.
You insist it?s quite natural, part of our tradition,
Being serviced by that most ancient and useful profession.
But you can?t feel they do it for love, they must seek distraction
In thoughts of the money, through the tedious sordid transaction.

And it?s not like you?re visiting prostitutes, for God?s sake, nothing of that kind -
You?re just doing the best for your child, in the school that you choose,
You prefer ?independent? to ?private?, by the way, if I don?t mind,
Like you don?t mind those other kids your free choice freely screws.

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Full post as published by Common Lawyer on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).