About The Poem

I wrote this poem a few years ago and thus the reference to Tony, the bat-eared buffoon who was England's Sub-prime Minister for more years than most of us can bear to remember. The irony is that whereas the Blair Labour government set out to dismantle the library system book by book, the succeeding Conservative government seems hell bent on destroying it in one fell swoop.

Category

Witty and wry poems

Sub-category

Odes and ends

About the author

Patrick Winstanley

Library Rules

No Eating
No Drinking
No Talking
Or Shouting

No Swearing
No Spitting
No Hopping
Or Skipping

No Smoking
No Smirking
No Pushing
Or Shoving

No Coughing
No Sneezing
No Sniffling
Or Wheezing

No Pets and
No Petting
No Singing
Or Dancing

No Doodling
Canoodling
Or Fooling
Around

And thanks to
Dear Tony
No F#cking
Books

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