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Sunday, 4 May 2014

The Ballad of Nick and Nigel

19:19:00 Posted by Unknown , , , , , 1 comment
Good evening readers. This week the theme has been White- which reminded me somehow of the UKIP election broadcasts and the BNP website I look at now and again. Now I know, hate isn't something we normally associate with white but, in good spirits, I've written a little poem to shine light on the issue.

Hope you enjoy,
S.


The Ballad of Nick and Nigel

Herr Farage and Monsieur Griffin met in a first class carriage
They shared croissants, drank red wine and discussed a peculiar marriage
For who are they to judge, they say, the colour of Britain's skin
Whilst both men feared being overheard and accused of racism.

So Nick and Nigel pondered over how to shut the doors
Whilst deep in their office bowels, the ghost of Enoch holds the floor
Enough's enough, he tells them, there are more than ever before
(Not one of the bright sparks realise they both work on foreign shores).

But putting that aside, they keenly swap offensive views
They argue how it could be wise to keep on side the Jews
We don't want to seem too far right, Nick reiterates to Nige
Then under the cover of night they get to work on hateful signs

Britain's doors are open and they're coming for your jobs!
There's millions lining up at Dover set to clean the bogs!
They're coming in their droves to claim YOUR seventy quid a week!
Did you see the dirty rats leaving bin bags on Benefits Street!

So Nick and Nigel set a plan, "Let's tell them we're like them"
(which is really like comparing Tory Boris to Red Ken)
"We'll drink pints in city pubs", Nige says, "stuff the rules and smoke at work".
Not realising half the country are laughing at the berk

Because little do these two men know, they're as loved as they're detested
We know they're riding slapshod towards a European election
But neither man is smart enough, they just turn up, speak and smile
They're choosing all their policies based just on what's in style

This week it'll be 'stop the gays, God's tears are bringing floods'
Next week a return to calling rooms of women filthy sluts
Then on through crime and fear until they get to the expenses
Where both men claim they're playing fair whilst looking over fences

But the hero of our poem, has been lurking out of view
He's been using on board wi-fi viewing websites of the two
Enough's enough! (He's on his feet) Have you idiots forgotten
These two are feeding from the fears that make society rotten.

The last claim Nick made was to take a jolly flight to Greece
To make a speech for Golden Dawn- what a way to keep the peace.
In his tax funded office he employs an old chief of the national front
no-one else applied so, jobs for the boys, he gave his son in law a punt!

The other one is just the same, he employs his German wife
Says no one else could do the job, it must be all the strife.
His manifesto just eight pages (and that includes a poster)
With the time he's not actually in the pub, you're as well voting in a toaster

By the time the Eurostar pulled in, news had spread with quite a fuss
The speak out hero disembarked and was told "You're one of us"
Go spread the word about these two, get all the people knowing
So Chaucer like, he thought it best to stick it in a poem.

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Sherlock Holmes and the Haunted Fairground


 by Ashley Lister

 A radio play with costume changes. 

This is a one act play for three actors.

Actor #1: Sherlock Holmes [wearing a deerstalker and holding a pipe].
Actor #2 plays Mr Oldman and The Ghost.
Actor #3 plays the following characters using the following props and voices:Miss Marples [holds a handbag/has an old lady voice]; Hercule Poirot [Wears a moustache/has a Belgian/Frenchman voice]; Philip Marlowe [Wears a hat/has an American accent]; Scooby Doo [Wears dog ears/does a Scooby-Doo impression] and Dr Watson [No props/has a Scot’s accent].


ACT ONE

Mr Oldman: Ah! Sherlock Holmes. I’m so pleased you could come here to help me with my little problem.

Sherlock Holmes: Mr Oldman. I look forward to solving your mystery – the case of the Haunted Fairground – by using my logical reasoning and my intelligent processes of deduction. To illustrate my prowess: I have already deduced that you own this fairground.

Mr Oldman: [Unimpressed] Yes. It says Fairground Owner on my name badge. You’re not really that great, are you? [beat] I was worried that this case might prove difficult. Consequently I’ve enlisted some assistants for you.

Sherlock Holmes: No. I’m the great Sherlock Holmes. I don’t need assistants.

Mr Oldman: [ignoring him] There’s Miss Marples.

Miss Marples: Good afternoon, young man.

Sherlock Holmes: No. Chuff off.

Mr Oldman: There’s Hercule Poirot.

Hercule Poirot: Bonjour, mon ami.

Sherlock Holmes: I don’t need any help.

Mr Oldman: There’s Philip Marlowe.

Philip Marlowe: Here’s looking at you, kid.

Sherlock Holmes: Go away.

Mr Oldman: And there’s Scooby-Doo.

Scooby-Doo: Shaggy?

Sherlock Holmes: A talking dog?

Scooby-Doo: Jinkies!

Sherlock Holmes: A barely literate, talking dog. Honestly, I prefer to work solely with my bromance colleague, Dr John Watson. [Hastily] Not that I’ve got anything against working with dotty old women, dodgy foreigners or barely literate talking dogs.

Mr Oldman: I’m afraid Dr Watson can’t work with you on this case. He’s dead. That’s why I asked you to investigate this crime.

Sherlock Holmes: Watson’s dead! Good Lord. How did that happen?

Mr Oldman: Well, since you’re the detective, you’re supposed to tell us. However, I can tell you that he was found pecked to death at the bottom of a chicken coop.

Sherlock Holmes: A chicken coop? [beat] I suspect [waggles pipe] foul play.

Hercule Poirot: I suspect it was a disenfranchised lover.

Philip Marlowe: I think it was the drop-dead blonde with the big tits.

Scooby-Doo: Shaggy?

Miss Marples: It was probably a darkie in the library.

Sherlock Holmes: [Sherlock Holmes stares at Miss Marples in disbelief.] A darkie in the library? For chuff’s sake. Are you solving crimes on behalf of the BNP?

Mr Oldman: Don’t be distracted by Miss Marples’ generational racism. There’s a case for you to solve, Holmes. I’ll leave you detectives to solve your case whilst I go and attend to Haunted Fairground business.

Exeunt Mr Oldman

Sherlock Holmes: I should really go and check on the body of my poor old friend, Dr Watson. I see his hand is reaching into the soil and pushing up daisies. There’s a receipt in his other hand to show that he’s cashed in his chips. His lips are closed hard, as though he’s bitten a mouthful of dust. And I can see that there’s a bucket by his foot. It looks like it’s been kicked, in another attempt to write a really shitty pun.

Enter Ghost

Ghost/Mr Oldman: Woo Hoo Woo Hoo. I am a scary ghost. Chuff off you bunch of detectives. Go away.

Sherlock Holmes: Egads! A ghost!

Hercule Poirot: Mon Dieu!

Philip Marlowe: Holy-Moly!

Scooby-Doo: Shaggy!

Miss Marples: What colour is this ghost?

Sherlock Holmes[Sherlock Holmes stares at Miss Marples in disbelief.What colour is the ghost? Chuffing hell. You really are a bigoted old battleaxe, aren’t you? How many black blokes have you sent to the gallows in your books, you racist old cow?

Ghost/Mr Oldman: Woo Hoo Woo Hoo. I am a scary ghost. Chuff off you bunch of detectives. Stop focusing on the racist old bag and focus on the murderous ghost. Be scared of the ghost.

Miss Marples: I never sent any black blokes to the gallows in my stories, Mr Holmes. Black blokes have never been allowed in St Mary Mead. Well, not unless they’re servants.

Ghost/Mr Oldman: Woo Hoo Woo Hoo. I am a scary ghost. I’m trying to give you a clue that your great detective minds can work out.

Miss Marples: Ah! I see it’s a black ghost. Never mind. We should still listen to what it has to say.

Sherlock Holmes: Scooby. Be a good dog and piss on that racist woman.

Miss Marples: Mr Holmes! There’s no need for rudeness. We have a mystery to solve.

Sherlock Holmes: I’ve solved it. The ghost is Mr Oldman. He killed Dr Watson. Mr Oldman is a serial killer.

Hercule Poirot: Le plume de ma tente!

Philip Marlowe: Howdy-Doody

Scooby-Doo: Shaggy!

Miss Marples: It’s one thing to make an accusation, Mr Holmes. But what makes you think the ghost is really Mr Oldman?

Sherlock Holmes: It wasn’t difficult to work out. He’s still wearing his name badge.

Miss Marples: But why would Mr Oldman kill Dr Watson?

Sherlock Holmes: I suspect Watson had already worked out that Mr Oldman was the ghost haunting this haunted fairground. Watson was always very good at reading name badges.

Hercule Poirot: But why would monsieur Oldman want to haunt his own fairground? Sacre Bleu? It makes no sense.

Sherlock Holmes: I don’t know. Insurance I suspect. A weak plot structure, more likely. Or maybe he just likes wearing sheets whilst he’s out so he can interfere with himself in public.

Hercule Poirot: [reflectively] Ah yes! Which of us can honestly say we do not enjoy that particular pleasure?

Philip Marlowe: But you said he was a serial killer. That suggests he’s killed more than one person.

Sherlock Holmes: There’s not much slips past the vast intellect of you Americans detectives, is there?

Philip Marlowe: Who else has he killed, Sherlock Holmes? And why are you pointing that gun at me?

SFX: BANG

Philip Marlowe: Holy-Moly. I’m shot.

SFX: BANG

Hercule Poirot: Chanson D’Amour! I am also shot.

SFX: BANG

Miss Marples: Ouch. You blackguard. You popped a cap in my ass.

SFX: BANG

Scooby-Doo: Shaggy! You bastard.

Ghost/Mr Oldman: What the hell are you doing, Holmes?

Sherlock Holmes: I’m enhancing my reputation. No one would care if I discovered a creepy weirdo was dressing up like a ghost and tugging one off whilst he floated around the fairground. But now I’m going to be credited with having brought down the serial killer who knocked off four legendary detectives.

Ghost/Mr Oldman: I’ll tell the truth. Everyone will know you’re a fraud.

SFX: BANG

Ghost/Mr Oldman: Ouch.

Watson stands up from the floor.

Sherlock Holmes: Watson! You’re not dead.

Dr Watson: No, Holmes. Don’t you remember? It was part of our plan that I should pretend to be dead so we could kill Mr Oldman and then buy his land cheap, demolish the fairground and build a private school on the land.

Holmes: Of course.

Dr Watson: And what sort of school do you think we should build here, Holmes?

Sherlock Holmes: [waggles his pipe] Elementary, my dear Watson. 

FIN

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Saving Christmas Spirit

06:52:00 Posted by Lara Clayton , , , , , , , , 4 comments

Last year Blackpool's Dead Good Poets held an event themed 'Propaganda'. The event took place in December, so life was starting to get festive, and I'd been reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas to my little nephew. As is usually the case with poetry - what you read influences what you write - I found myself rewriting Dr. Seuss' popular Christmas poem. Deciding to place the BNP leader Nick Griffin as the Grinch and attempting to write something that was both political and satirical (two things that I rarely write about in poetry). The poem was a challenge - I'm not a rhyming poet - but it was fun, therefore, I thought I would share the resulting poem with you. I hope you enjoy it.
    

How The Griffin Nicked Christmas


Every kid
down in England
liked Santa a lot...
                                               
                                                 But the man,
                                                snarling English from England,
                                                did NOT!

The man hated Santa and not caring who knew
he told Paxman, Blue Peter; his message soon grew.
He screamed, “I am Griffin and this is my plan:
“We’ll hold an election, get rid of that man.”
The vote it was simple, pick Griffin or Claus
and soon all the Santas were gone from the stores.

But not everyone fell for the Griff’s evil lies,
the children had sackfuls of questioning whys.
“Why’s Santa so bad?” they asked with a cheer.
“Does Griff not like Santa’s elves and reindeer?”
The Griffin pondered their questions, then gave his reply,
a ten minute advert that would make them comply.

“Santa’s not British,” the Griffin roared with disgust.
“We’ll get him, gift wrap him, send him back to the Dutch.”
Now, maybe the Griff’s heart was too cold to hold joy,
or perhaps he was dropped on his head as a boy.
But the truest, most plausible, reason of all
was that Griffin’s brain was six sizes too small.

On the first of December a newsman said,
“The poll has Griff losing and Santa ahead.”
By the second the Griff stood cocky and tall,
he’d won was the verdict, the final call.
It was clear he had cheated, brought many a vote,
but he wore a white beard and stole Santa’s coat.

“There’s a new Santa in town,” he said with a grin.
“It would seem that we English know how to win.”
His BNP members soon gathered and sung,
We’ll rewrite the rules in our pure mother tongue.
The ‘Naughty’ and ‘Nice’ were swept quickly away
as he hatched his new plan with little delay.


The Griffin’s two lists now read Black and White,
he checked birth records into the night.
When done, he admired, looked his lists up and down,
chuckled and danced to see white not near brown.
“This is the way that Christmas should work,”
said sinful Nick with a big yellow smirk.

As Christmas Eve came he got ready to leave –
with British-made toys, as a way to deceive,
all prettily packaged and filling his sleigh –
it was time for Griffin to hunt out his prey.
With a ho! and a yo! he took to the skies,
eager to deliver his unmerry goodbyes.

The Griffin descended upon every house
and crept around like an overweight mouse.
He tore pages from books so the history was English,
painted the Wise Men ‘til their skin was more pinkish.
He took all the Sony: the Playstation; the telly,
and posted each item to a landfill in Delhi.

The worst treatment of all was saved for one list;
the houses with people he despised and dismissed,
but he braved the chimneys and entered his hell,
leaving gifts that rang with a countdown bell.
He left lumps of coal with plane tickets attached,
and graffitied their walls with Time to Dispatch!

Yes,
the Griffin was bad, the meanest you’ll meet,
and no poet or poem can make him all sweet.
But justice was served on that starry night...

Something big and red came into sight,
it fell from the sleigh and plummeted down,
heading towards a small coastal town.
And as it tumbled closer, hit the street with a bang
“The Griffin. Nick Griffin is dead,” children sang.



Thank you for reading and wishing you all a wonderful Christmas,
Lar.