The Not So Good Old Days Poem by Christopher Tye

The Not So Good Old Days

Modern life's not great but the good old days weren't much better,
Izal toilet paper at primary school should have been used in the art class,
Power cuts every time a farmer cut through unmarked cables,
3 day working weeks in the seventies due to working strife.

And then there's all those good old fashioned diseases,
Consumption caught from unpasteurised milk,
Smallpox unless you were a lucky milk-maid with cowpox,
All the fevers looking like a rainbow with yellows and scarlet's.

Then there's all that old technology from the golden age of industry,
Trains without loo's but a least they kept time better then,
Televisions and photo's in black and white or sepia if you were posh,
Back in my day mobile telecommunications were two bean cans and a piece of string.

By Christopher Tye