2010/10/27 Traviata Prachettolo Poem by Margaret Alice

Alfredo fell in love with Violetta upon seeing
her lovely face and kept watch by her window
each night and when they were introduced,
wooed her immediately and they went off to
set up an establishment in rural splendour

Where Alfredo’s dour father Germondo self-
righteously appeared to interfere and set his
son’s life aright, he explained to evil Violetta
that his angelic daughter stood to lose her
beloved because of Alfredo’s illicit affair

Germondo expected this evil, sunken woman
Violetta to give up his son on behalf of his
half-wit daughter and the besotted Violetta,
crazed by consumption, acquiesced and
spurned Alfredo who denounced her

To all the world, darling Violetta went off to die
alone and Germondo appeared to sing her good-
bye just as the idiotic Alfredo also belatedly walked
in to sing his contrition and so endeth the terrible
song – I wish I could kick all of them!


A tongue-in-cheek summary of La Traviata
in Terry Pratchett style