Saturday 17 September 2011

Another tribute to the past

More views of - or at - Cambridge Film Festival 2011
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17 September

By popular request, another number from the back catalogues of
The Spoonbill Generator:


Discredited in Birmingham


Your bland mosaics, weak and pale [Roland]
More like Bud than honest ale [fester]
More like chalk than wholesome cheese [Roland]
Not like health, more like disease [fester]
Just the ticket for the Tate [The Agent Apsley]

Your buckling sculptures, tired and stale [Roland]
More like water than like ale [fester]
More like flesh than good red fowl [Roland]
Not like a laugh, more like a growl [fester]
Just the thing to tickle Fate. [Roland]

Your tawdry frescoes, wan and quaint [fester]
More like puke than any paint [P]
More like frying-pan than fire [Roland]
Not good at all, but really dire [fester]
Just the kind of stuff I Hate! [Roland]

Your sordid etchings, smudged and faint [fester]
More like splurging than restraint [Roland]
Less than wholesome, quite absurd [The Agent Apsley]
Not quite first rate, more like third [P]
Just what I Regurgitate [Roland]

Yet your enamel's of the best [The Agent Apsley]
Not Faberge, but I'm impressed [fester]
Not quite thrilled, but more than glad [Roland]
It's more than good, it's not half bad [fester]
Really rather Second-rate! [Roland]

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