Famous Arguments

Some people say the earth is flat,

And others its shaped like a football.

This argument's gone on for so long,

I'm beginning to think I'm the screwball.

Gulliver's Travels got another one going,

Which was — which end of a boiled egg should be opened?

The semi-symmetrical egg they are poking,

As a chicken's never bellicose nor foul-spoken!

The argument now's about council tax,

Should this go up down or sideways?

The wastage of revenue printing

"free-newspaper" facts,

Goes down the sink trap in a tidal wave.

Ken Geach

Park Street, Ammanford