Ode

She's quite unfair to writers

Of plays and poetry.

Victoria Wood

Is far too good

For the likes of you and me.

Her TV shows and specials 

Created without fuss

Gain vast awards

And more applause

Than all of the rest of us.

We've struggled on for ages

Got printed here and there

While every script

She lightly tripped

Went straight from pen to air.

It's Acorn Antiques the Musical,

Dinner Ladies on TV

And popular songs

To soo the throngs

Of hoi-polloi like me.

But, I suppose I'm only jealous

For if I were she

I'd take delight

That I could write

And earn so easily.

Brian Hick 2009

©copyright S Hick December 2021