The Sturdy Beggar

[billy]

He bears a cornucopia
of psychiatric symptoms
and gives me claustrophobia
when I spot him in the distance.
Instantly I’m lonelier,
that old familiar sickness:
the seasoned melancholia
that turkeys feel at Christmas. i laughed, great two lines.
He’s purporting to be holier
but as Heaven is my witness,
he’s out to get one over you
and he'd screw his ma for sixpence.
Beware the gloomy brochure -
he isn’t kosher. feels to abrupt meter-wise

He’ll sing a song of suicide
and the cuffs upon his wrists
will rise enough to catch my eyes
but I’m unconvinced by this.
I recognise who’s bona fide
and he isn’t on that list.
He starts a war and then subsides
when the touch-paper is lit,
conquers you and then divides
your loyalties bit by bit;
he sells weapons to both sides
though he knows it’s not legit.
He’s gamekeeper and poacher -
he isn’t kosher. feels off meter-wise

I’ve had more than my quota
of his brainless, boorish banter.
There ought to be a rota,
someone else should have to answer
when his mouth begins to motor
as he pulls another flanker
while lay sprawled across the sofa would 'and lays' work better?
where his arse has dropped the anchor. hehe good funny line/image
Watch him play the passive smoker
while infecting us with cancer!
How I wish he were remoter
than the coast of Sri Lanka!
He’s a hoodwinker and hoaxer –
he isn’t kosher.

loved it. i thought in parts it didn't flow as well as it could have but i think sharpening the meter would be an easy fix for the person who wrote this. some excellent lines that portray so well a scrounger who knows how to milk the system. i liked the humour in the telling of the piece. all i had for nits was the meter thing. i thought it was original and well done. i do agree with Dale that the first two verse were the strongest. that said i also enjoyed the last one,

thanks for the read.