Trivia

VICE VERSA

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asks us to use the following vice versas 

trivial/significant   observe/ignore

TRIVIA

When you watch adverts on TV

It's an exercise in banality.

Though watching in pairs can be convivial,

One can't deny that it's all trivial.

Significant items are on the news;

(Such as the parting of Kate and Cruise!),

While adverts ignore the up-to-date

In favour of things put on a plate.

Food and drink and shiny cars

Are things promoted by famous stars.

I observe a sad decline

From all that is positive and fine

Into a very sad morass

Of all that is gaudy, cheap and crass.

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DOWN MEMORY LANE!

A poor old dear sat sobbing on a park bench in the sun;
It was plain to see she'd had her day; in fact, her race was run.
At last a friendly gentleman sat down there, by her side,
And gently asked her why it was she sat there and she cried.
'Can I do something for you? You're clearly quite distressed;
There might be little I can do but I can try my best'.
'I'm the luckiest of women'' she wiped her eyes and sighed;
'You see, it's only recently that I became a bride......
He started as a toy-boy (well, I've reached that time of life)
But, recently, we've married, and I'm now his loving wife.
As you can see, I'm elderly, and hardly in my prime,
While he is only thirty-five, but we have a lovely time.
After a night of passion he brings breakfast up to bed,
He's a qualified chef, you see, so I'm wonderfully fed!
But he's got a lot of money so we dine out every night
And I wear the pearls he's bought me. They're very big and bright.
Of course we both enjoy the time for 'love in the afternoon',
And I must admit that time of day just cannot come too soon.
He's handsome, virile, six foot three and he's got a lovely smile!'
Once more the lady bowed her head, sobbing all the while.
'Oh!' cried the weeping lady, 'Oh what I wouldn't give
To be able to cast my mind back
And remember where I live!'
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PS

A gentleman whose name is Rob

Says I do a very good job

Of writing all my little rhymes.

He has read them several times.

He's 'in awe'; and so I said

'Send me a photo (just your head)

So I can see you over-awed!'

So, even if my rhymes are flawed,

My ego has been duly stroked

And, in the vernacular, I'm 'stoked'.

Rob Hood