A Bit Of Profanity Goes A Long Way

Murphy’s Law.

Most of us are familiar with the premise of Murphy’s Law :

If there are two possible outcomes for a given set of circumstances, the most inconvenient one will prevail.

Or expressed another way :

Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.

Arguably, at the moment of the Murphy Events (or “Life”, as I like to call it) there is a place for a little bit of profanity. For example, that moment at the petrol pump when you realise your wallet is still sat on your bedside table or when you drop your freshly buttered toast onto the floor, sticky side down of course. I believe that should be considered fair use.

According to the great philosopher, @theveryangrymaker on Instagram, the continued occurrence of Murphy Events is referred to as “Fuckery”. Furthermore, he advises that this process is eternal and none of us are immune to its power – as in “The Fuckery never ends”

In tribute to this sage fellow I present the following:

The Fuckery affects us all,
From the very short, to the hugely tall.
As surely as the sun will rise
Calamity will be your prize.
For The Fuckery Never Ends.

When working on your faithful cart
Swearing while you drop the part
A certainty that life will teach:
It always falls just out of reach.
‘Cos The Fuckery Never Ends.

Five minutes past the close of store
Is just the time that you’ll need more
Of just that thing you cannot find
To finish up your daily grind.
Yup, The Fuckery Never Ends.

The toast will fall upon its face
Your keys gone from the normal place
The PC that will update when
Time to wait is not your friend.
So, The Fuckery Never Ends

And so the list goes on and on
Maybe I should write a song?
Certain as this all must seem
I live in hope, I have a dream
That The Fuckery will finally end

A life of graft and drudge and toil
Takes a toll on our mortal coil
And as we take that final breath,
Take our very last steps to death.
That, my friends, is when at last
The Fuckery forever ends.

Procrastination

I seem
to have mastered the fine art of procrastination, in fact it amazes me that I have got off my butt long enough to actually write this blog. Maybe it’s just that – I don’t actually have to get off my butt to do this.

You may recall I very crudely played around with my interpretation of the Haiku a little while back and had fun whilst almost certainly offending the Haiku gods, or whoever is the guardian of that form.

So, today I played some more:

Procrastination

I’ll just check my emails first

Look, new cat vids.

fergws

The Birth of a Haiku

Haiku

I’d heard the word and knew (sort of) that it was some kind of poetry, but that was about it. I decided to find out more. Professor Google to the rescue…

So, a cursory investigation would lead you to believe that a Haiku is merely a 17 syllable phrase in three lines with 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively. This is a vast oversimplification of fine Japanese writing. I can’t pretend to have absorbed the full intricacies of this art but as I said on the very first blog entry, I’m just having fun here.

So here’s my first attempt, it’s not exactly prize winning but it gave me a chuckle.

My first real Haiku,
I don’t know what I’m doing,
This is really hard.


I think this second iteration is much improved.

On the sandy shore
Waves break softly at my feet
Smelling the salt air

And finally, some light humour to end the day :

Jaffa, the round fruit
Orange as a Space Hopper.
Doesn’t bounce too well.

fergws

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me.

I started this blog as a place to share my new found passion for penning rhymes. To me they are not yet worthy of the title “poems”, hence the blog title – Broken Rhymes.

It doesn’t matter if they’re not that good, I’m just having fun. If you like them, tell me and tell others. If you don’t, then that’s OK too.

So, here we go.

I happened upon a post on Instagram from @andycpugh about a freshly made Apple and Blackeberry Crumble and could not help but think about how hot it would be straight out of the oven:

Aroma sweet from stove arise

Forewarns a multitude of pies.

But impulsive taste of what you yearn

Will simply lead to third degree burns!