Importance Of A Laugh Poem by Douglas Scotney

After I could do no 'better'
than rhyme it with 'matter',

and 'favour' with 'ever',

I sought help from a roosting poet
to curry me favour from a rhyming speech.

I soon sent him packing:

the rhymes of the wretch were fine,
but the mood of doom was out of line.

What was lacking

was a laugh
and an off-rhyme to bring one on.

I wrote 'the bride',

but said, 'The wedding was by most enjoy'd;
the best-dressed there, the broid.'