Thursday, August 13, 2015

The Tory Midge

The Tory Midge


The Scottish summer
Comes with an itch
Courtesy of
The Biting Midge
Cullicoides 
Impunctatus
Ubiquitous, the thing 
With that is
You can’t escape
Your blood gets sucked
Even vampires
Are out of luck
Especially at Loch Awe
Or Oban
Where every drop 
Of haemoglobin
Has already been
Imbibed
By the horrid
Midgey tribe
Indeed, the whole
Argyllshire area
May be infected with
Malaria
In which case, you could well
Be stuffed
It might be time
To say: Enough!
No gin and tonic
Or Mojito
Can guard against
The Scots mosquito
You can’t eat scenery
When it eats you
It’s time to move
To somewhere new
The Pyrenees 
That mountain air!
And nothing to fear
But snakes and bears
Or England, which has 
Conservatives
In power, and that’s
No way to live
Remember, come autumn
Midges disappear.
Tories remain
Throughout the year.

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