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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You've Got Magic!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'America - You've Got Magic! '<br>Ran the sign on the Glitzy Floor, <br>For this was the latest Reality Show<br>To consume consumers with awe; <br>Some Boffin, deep in a Think-Tank<br>Had been racking his brain for weeks, <br>And this was the format he gave them; <br>Home Magicians! - with tricks and treats! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Show was into the knockout stage, <br>The Advertisers were rapt, <br>None of your Song and Dancing here, <br>Nobody shedding Fat, <br>No-one stuck in a boring House<br>With brains the size of a pea, <br>But plenty of age-old magic tricks<br>For the rest of the world to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Judges sat in their glory<br>Each equipped with a magic wand, <br>The first of them, Benjamin Glowery <br>Played his part, in a deep despond, <br>He hated the Hatted Rabbits<br>And the Doves that flew over the stage, <br>While contestants that showed him a Card Trick<br>Bore the brunt of his fearful rage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'd wave his wand in rejection<br>Like thumbs down, as they did in Rome, <br>And depending on Betty Abullbull<br>He would send them all packing, home, <br>While Betty paraded her implants<br>And her elegant, coiffured hair, <br>She was there for the sex attraction<br>As there wasn't much intellect there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The third was a known Magician<br>Who had fallen on harder times, <br>He'd taken the job for the money<br>He was known as 'Impeccable' Grimes, <br>He spent more time on his fingernails<br>Than watching the acts begin, <br>He said that he knew all the magic tricks, <br>That nothing was new to him! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He waited to see how Glowery went<br>Then voted the other way, <br>So often it was up to Abullbull<br>Whether the act would go, or stay, <br>The audience cheered and hooted, <br>The idiot audience moaned, <br>As long as the votes came pouring in<br>With the fees from the mobile phones! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When things became too restive there<br>The judges played their games, <br>They'd introduce some terrible act<br>But mispronounce the names, <br>The audience would hoot and jeer<br>As if the name were a fact, <br>So some red-faced performer<br>Would screw up in his Magic Act! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The last one up on the stage was weird, <br>A Wizard, dressed in black<br>A garment down to his boots, who<br>When they stared would stare right back.<br>A cloak hung loose at his shoulders<br>And a long, grey flowing beard, <br>They stumbled over his name again...<br>Mis... Mister... Toffee... Lees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crowd just roared, while he had frowned, <br>Said nothing in reply, <br>But charmed a snake with a magic flute<br>As if it were a toy, <br>Pulled out a bunch of Chrysanthemums<br>And watched them fill the stage, <br>While Glowery jumped about in his seat, <br>Preparing to vent his rage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There's nothing so great in that, ' he said, <br>'We want to see something new, <br>We want to be entertained, old man, <br>Is there anything you can do? '<br>The Wizard then waved his wand, and changed<br>The backdropp into stars, <br>And floated a foot above the stage<br>To the audience oohs and aahs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grimes had sneered, and shook his head, <br>'An old trick at the best! <br>You'll have to do better than that, old man<br>If I'm going to be impressed! '<br>Ben Glowery then had waved his wand, <br>To dismiss the ancient sage, <br>While Betty Abullbull shook her head; <br>The Wizard growled in rage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He shimmered and grew in height, then raised<br>The Wand that he waved on high, <br>'You think that you're all so clever<br>That your world's your Reality? <br>You think you can mock a name that's held<br>In fear through the centuries...<br>You're going to regret you played the fool<br>With Mephistopheles! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The studio sat in a bubble, floated<br>Out with the camera crews, <br>Carried the Judges, audience, <br>All screaming above the trees, <br>They're floating forever, alone in space<br>All praying, in Saturn's Rings, <br>With each one ruing the day they thought<br>To play with the Devil's things! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">30 April 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Ran the sign on the Glitzy Floor, 
For this was the latest Reality Show
To consume consumers with awe; 
Some Boffin, deep in a Think-Tank
Had been racking his brain for weeks, 
And this was the format he gave them; 
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