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The Gobshite
Preamble: This really happened to my younger brother (Subject to the usual poetic hyperbole) He was the quiet little man! The red faced gobshite left the pub and was never seen again ;-)
A quiet little man sat at the bar
Peacefully enjoying a drink from his jar
In came a fellow with drink was half gone
Looking for someone to foist himself on
“In my day when I was brought up as a kid
Lads just did what their own fathers did”
“If yer dad was a miner yer went down the mine
We all knew our places and the country was fine
If yer dad was a baker yer learned t’ make bread
Fancy ideas were knocked out of yer head”
He went on and on singing the praise
Of what things were like in the far good old days
Seemed he wanted attention from all in the room
Shouting and spouting he loudly did boom
Proclaiming the virtues of years gone by
All forced to hear him wanted to cry
They shrank in their seats praying for death
Wishing this bastard would run out of breath
So bored was the little man drinking his beer
He just wanted this bugger to get out of here
Suffering more of this fellow filled him with dread
But then an idea popped into his head
“Oh I see” he smiled brightly “so if I understand right
I’d guess that your father was a fat mouthed gobshite”
A quiet little man sat at the bar
Peacefully enjoying a drink from his jar
In came a fellow with drink was half gone
Looking for someone to foist himself on
“In my day when I was brought up as a kid
Lads just did what their own fathers did”
“If yer dad was a miner yer went down the mine
We all knew our places and the country was fine
If yer dad was a baker yer learned t’ make bread
Fancy ideas were knocked out of yer head”
He went on and on singing the praise
Of what things were like in the far good old days
Seemed he wanted attention from all in the room
Shouting and spouting he loudly did boom
Proclaiming the virtues of years gone by
All forced to hear him wanted to cry
They shrank in their seats praying for death
Wishing this bastard would run out of breath
So bored was the little man drinking his beer
He just wanted this bugger to get out of here
Suffering more of this fellow filled him with dread
But then an idea popped into his head
“Oh I see” he smiled brightly “so if I understand right
I’d guess that your father was a fat mouthed gobshite”
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