Something freaky happened there, and cut a bit off my message. The poem goes: Sing for Wales or shut your trap All the rest's a load crap. Which is pretty succinct. No, I'm not Dr. Thomas Jones. But there was a Dr. Thomas Jones who inspired the following short poem: Where now he lies his own routine Will suffer scant disruption For none could say he'd ever been A stranger to corruption.

Are you related to Dr Thomas Jones?

Harri Webb wasn't actually a terrorist, he just designed the symbol. But he did write the mighty 'Advice to a Young Poet' which goes

Sounds just like a PhD on "Why won't those bloody tories let me watch 'Carry On' films in peace!", to me. But don't worry, Nicholas. At least you're doing something useful - I'm sure there's a great deal we could learn from dangerously incompetent welsh terrorists.

Yes, of course the bathos is the point. The end is meant to be laughably mundane. But perhaps I could express it better. But the point is, it does fucking matter that Princess Diana's ex-butler gets more coverage than, say, 966 people being massacred in the Congo last month. By the way, my PhD is on a poet called Harri Webb who was a hardcore Welsh Nationalist, and designed the symbol used by the Free Wales Army, one of the least competent terrorist groups in history.

oh come on the ending is the only good thing in the entire piece! "Butler who did not steal has now been freed." -- genius! You build up the tension, and the reader thinks it's going to be another Nicholas Jones epic about political issues and the labour party and welsh suffering and war in iraq, but then when the news comes on the headlines are just laughably mundane. Of course, rather than seeing the funny side of all this, I'm sure Nicholas Jones is deeply disappointed with the quality of "News Values" in modern society. "Why do we care more about butlers than we do about human suffering and welsh issues?" Well I've got news for you, Nicholas: if you want to watch your "Carry On" films in peace, along with all the other working class Labour bumpkins, then I suggest you get Sky TV rather than spending all your time (not to mention taxpayer's money) writing a PhD about it.

Thank you for your kind comment. I agree, the ending in retrospect is a bit weak. I came up with lots of different lines, but none of them quite worked - it has to convey the information and also fit the sonnet structure.

Thank you. I am aware of the English sonnet's structure, and that I'm breaking certain rules, but cross pollinating flowers promotes diversity and evolution, and scientific headaches too, unfortunately. I appreciate your time to comment. thanks again.

hug!

the title refers to the nature of japanese haiku which is a five seven five dance and the content of each line.. i am not explaining it to anyone. i simply understand it as such. eso.

promise i am right indulge yourself in haiku trust me thoroughly