We’re celebrating the Bank Holiday weekend with a selection of irreverent, irritated and irate doggerel! Here’s ‘Friday Means the Weekend ‘ to really get your weekend off to the right start!
Friday means the Weekend
(Another ducking and diving week is over!)
No more work
No more lunch
No more waiting for the next big hunch,
No more desk
No more screen
No more lamenting the last great dream,
No more stalling
from the banks,
No more laughter
down in the ranks,
No more! compart-ment-alising,
No more! quasi-fratern-ising,
No more! people pushing their luck,
Cos down in the cellar they don’t give a
And I couldn’t give a
And I won’t give a
And I don’t give a
Cos its Friday!
No more! hanging out in bars,
No more! sweating in their cars,
No more! interm-inable meetings,
No more! terrify-ing seating
Arrangements, arrangements,
Seating arrange-ments!
Intimidating, alienating
Procrastinating, exhaustinating,
Friday night, Sat’day morning,
Holding back, the interminable yawning
of the chips that need eating
and the dogs that need beating
and the carpets that need wringing and the bells that don’t stop singing
And I couldn’t give a
And I won’t give a
And I don’t give a
Cos its Friday!
(It’s time to go home and face the furniture!)
It’s time to go home and face the furniture!
Friday Means the Weekend is available in our poetry anthology, There’s no such Thing as an Englishman: Poems from an Irritated England.
This anthology of poetry marks the many sources of irritation faced by the average Englishman or woman these days – everything from the railways to referenda via what ever it is the young call music these days.
It was launched on 31 January 2020 – the day when the UK left the European Union and when the phenomenon known as Brexit finally, we like to think, finally evaporates and all those years of frustration, anger, sheer disbelief and irritation all come to rest. But as Chairman Mao once said about what he thought the effects of the French Revolution were, it may be too soon to tell.
But its two authors – Nick Owen and Janice Owen – have become accomplished at becoming irritated at many facets of life in England over the years and hope that you, dear reader, will find some solace in knowing that you are not alone when it comes to feeling frustrated, pissed off, angry or just good old fashioned irritated.
Being English though, means we’ve just reached a level of irritation and aren’t quite ready to riot. Yet.
Want to read more poems from ‘No Such Thing as an Englishman’? Have a look here:
There’s No Such Thing as an Englishman
There’s No Such Thing as an Englishman is an anthology of poetry from an irritated England and marks the many sources of irritation faced by the average Englishman or woman these days – everything from the railways to referenda via what ever it is the young call music these days.
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