Poems and Songs

Reflections
on
Mr Murch's Recent Lecture

If you can photograph a hackneyed subject

And treat it in a different kind of way,

Removing highlights where they aren’t wanted

And putting others in where they will pay.

If you can liquidate unwanted children

And turn the smoke to drift against the wind,

Or make the sun set where it was at midday

And don’t confess how many ways you’ve sinned

If you can focus on a bit that matters

And leave the distant lamp-posts slightly hazy,

Or lighten up the overhanging branches

And see the charm of paving when it’s crazy

If you can do just half the things I’ve mentioned,

Or even one or two supremely well,

You’ll be a downright regular Royal Fellow -

A Whitehead-Mortimer-Murch-McKissock-Dell.

 

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