Ethnicity

BLUE MONDAY

ETHNICITY

I described a show as 'Ethnic'

And I thought I knew what I meant.

Somehow I saw someone 'Ethnic'

As living in a tent,

Wearing lots of gaudy beads,

Dancing to exotic beats,

Dressed in brilliant colours

And eating strange sugary sweets.

'Ethnic' meant speaking a language

That was gibberish to me,

'Ethnic' meant having different ideas

Of home and family.

Then I looked the word up on 'Google'

And found, to my surprise,

That 'Ethnic' doesn't mean 'darker-skinned'

Or 'having oval eyes'!

'Ethnic' means 'Belonging

To a group in a foreign land'.

So here was an explanation

That I could understand.

I belong to a cohort

Of 'English living in Oz',

Held together by memories

Of our Homeland that once was.

I don't wear brilliant colours,

My skin is a boring beige,

But I, too, could do an 'Ethnic' dance,

If I chose to, on Life's stage!

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THOROUGHLY MODERN GHOST

If there were ghosts in this modern age

They'd inhabit technology.

They'd hide in the corners of computers

And haunt creatively.

They'd be very poltergistic

In very modern ways;

They'd send us curious messages

And cause untold delays.

They'd do spirity things in the keyboard

Causing mis-hits and mistakes;

They'd make curious tingaling noises

And send us email fakes.

They'd make us lose our programs;

They'd make the screen go blank.

Forget about gloomy corridors

And dungeons dark and dank.

These modern ghosts would never stoop

To just saying 'Whee!' or 'Boo!'.

They'd live inside our computers.

 In fact, I think they do!

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