Walking the Doggerel: Unreasonable Rhymes by Tom Morton. Available here: http://blur.by/1znyEpC
The Generator’s song
Mr Soichiro Honda, I salute you
Not for your Goldwings and Blackbirds
Your Deauvilles and Dominators
Varaderos and Nighthawks
Much as I have loved them,
Bought, sold traded in
Fallen off and fallen in love
With Fireblades and Valkyries
Transalps and Africa Twins
It’s numbers, letters for me now
Not CX500s or NS400s
Or where it all started
A CD175, black and silver
Those elipses, those pudgy curves...
An HRX 476 is what I keep
A gentleman’s lawnmower
Reliable, instantly woken
From its season's sleep
But now, at the heart
Of our bleak winter
Another machine stands silent
Ready to provide salvation
Heat, light and television
Internet and radio
Connected, primed,
Its tank is full
When crisis hits
It starts with just a single pull
EC2000! In hurricane and gale
You should know, Soichiro-san
It cannot fail.
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