Edinburgh Festival Day 1: Festival Eye
ON FIRST LOOKING INTO THE FRINGE PROGRAMME
With apologies to Keats
Much have I travell'd and at some expense
And many dodgy plays and comics seen
As halfway round the kingdom have I been
For entertainment - nothing too intense
Agit-prop, well-meant had me cringe
Stridency, the bedmate of pretence
But nothing ever challenged common-sense
Like the programme for the Edinburgh Fringe
Then felt I like those small domestic pets
Fascinated, puzzl'd and afraid
On seeing stranger creatures at the vets
Than any that their mother ever made
And learning people there kept marmosets
Or brought their llamas in to have them spayed
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