Wedding Humour: the Pitfalls and Pleasures 1.
You’d need to be a Tony Harrison,
to characterise this Wedding Day in Leeds,
where festive cars strive to get a move on,
to cater for aged gentlepersons’ needs,
in case a favourite football fan's refrain
is being played already for the bride.
But she treats Lohengrin with some disdain,
when walking slowly at her father’s side,
and Purcell’s Trumpet Tune’s the melody
which complements the quiet, saintly ways
of Mary in the Wood’s solemnity
where grass grows green and sheep still safely graze.