(With Apologies To Banjo Patterson)
I’d composed a sort of letter,
Which I had for want of better
Common sense and circumspection
Posted on an Ebay thread
‘T’was in innocence I sent it,
Never dreamed that I’d repent it,
For I thought the button pushers
Would be fast asleep in bed
But a missive came directed
From a quarter unexpected,
And I’m sure the same was written
By a robot on the keys,
‘T’was an ebay mod who wrote it
And verbatim I’ll not quote it,
But in essence it said ‘Watch it!
Or you’re headed overseas.
Now I’m feeling hurt and puzzled
To have been so cruelly muzzled,
And my self-esteem’s deflated,
Like a leaky old balloon.
But it seems there is a lesson,
To be learnt from my transgression –
It’s the posters pay the piper,
but the mods who call the tune.
