LEANING TO THE LEFT

Ah yes

Leaning to the left

Seems to be all the rage these days

Maybe it’s just a phase

You know

Like leaning to the right

Which, as everybody now knows,

Was just a pile of shite.

Leaning one way or th’other

Won’t necessarily please your mother

‘Stand up straight!’

Seemed to have been her message

Whenever I wavered from the straight and narrow

‘How many leaned to either side

On that long, laboured march from Jarrow?’