Magritte. Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

RWP Poem #113
Prompt...out of the comfort zone and into a different style.

I like your humour
Mr Magritte
a bit off colour
that's why it's a hit

Very subtle of course
understood by a few
before the internet
gave up all the clues


If language could be taught
by those of your sort
then every Australian would be trilingual
well at least bilingual in a jerry jingle
with cunning little linguists frolicking abound
umlauting and squawking in high foreign sounds

The youth in other languages
will order their shouts and
learn there is more to a root
than conjugational stout
an ale for an ailing lexicon -ouch!

With luck it will leap frog to the North Shore
to dormitory suburbs crowded with bores
where 'death in the family ' clipboards hang fast
to every letterbox so clean and so smart
Anglican fortress private school shired
Though darkness deepens Lord with me abide.