Tonight's Poet Corner: Put It On Youtube

Put It On Youtube
by Belinda Roddie

This is a social experiment:
Let's pour milk from the balcony
in Parliament, then watch the MPs
who know nothing about the Internet
or copyright shriek in terror as

they meet their fates in dairy
Carrie form. They will smell like
Vitamin D for weeks, and their tea just
won't taste the same to them with
their biscuits. Then, when you're

dragged out by the constables,
sing to the percussion of Big Ben,
who has been trying to grow a mustache
for the past century and a half,

but he could never make it past
cast iron puberty. The bell tolls
for your lack of facial hair, my dude.

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