The Knowledge
Posted: 15 September 2018
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Every night when I’m in bed
I thumb through ‘London A-Z’,
me brain gone into overload
while memorizing every road
from Billingsgate to Haringey.
I need to know the shortest way
from Shepherds Bush to Grosvenor Square,
and where to ply the choicest fare
if I’m to land me longed-for job
I’ll need a green ‘all London’ fob.
At Blue Book runs I’ll take a stab –
then I can buy a sherbet dab.
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 James Graham at 20:12 on 16 September 2018
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Hello Mike – Quite an entertaining humorous take on ‘The Knowledge’. It gets off to a good start:
Every night when I’m in bed
I thumb through ‘London A-Z’
The London A-Z would be ideal bedtime reading, send you to sleep in no time! Not if the brain is in ‘overload’, though! Makes you think – how do the taxi drivers do it? It must be like swotting for a degree in geography.
Your punch line ‘then I can buy a sherbet dab’ is not bad – this seems to be the the ultimate ambition: study, work, memorise, then that glittering prize at the end of it all – but it’s not the best of your punch lines that I’ve seen. Here’s a thought – how about expanding on the idea of ‘knowledge’?
In other kinds of knowledge I’m not smart,
philosophy, or quarks, or modern art…
You’re a lot better at rhyming than I am. A few more lines might lead you to a nice twist at the end, maybe something about driving all sorts of clever folks from A to B, and you know stuff that they don’t know. They’d be lost without the taxi driver. Just an idea.
James.
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 V`yonne at 23:39 on 17 September 2018
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I agree with James. I think it needs a few more corners -- a bit of a Mornington Crescent feel
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Mickey
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