Plain English

When bigots have their flags unfurled
With rah-rah fit to beat the world,
The thing for decent chaps to do
Is ban an acronym or two.

At last our citizens are free
And ministers at liberty
To use that Anglo-Saxon speech
Which some would place beyond our reach.

No longer need we twist our tongues
And strain our brains and fog our lungs
To play the sociologic game
And call our piccaninnies BAME.

We've taken back our sacred right
To say a wog is not a white.
So much more British and less fuss:
Good old straightforward Them and Us.

Frank Littell-Britton