{"id":765,"date":"2014-07-27T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2014-09-27T12:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:45:35","slug":"writing-for-the-commonest-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/writing-for-the-commonest-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing For the Commonest Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>no knave brought to book<\/div>\n<div>Who has won a drunken cheer\u2014<\/div>\n<div>The witty man and his joke<\/div>\n<div>Aimed at the commonest ear,<\/div>\n<div>The clever man who cries<\/div>\n<div>The catch cries of the clown<br \/>\n~ <strong>&#8220;The Fisherman&#8221; W.B. Yeats<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Too many guffaws against politeness laws<br \/>\nWords of hate uttered to sneer<br \/>\nBask in the glory of the nyeucks story<br \/>\nAimed at the commonest ear.<\/p>\n<p>From those from whom his folks fled, lest they be dead:<br \/>\nHas he listened to the prejudice about them?<br \/>\nThey drink, wont work and steal: that whats thought of them for real<br \/>\nBut those are wrong to think that about him.<\/p>\n<p>He has, he thinks the knack, of having the craic,<br \/>\nIts free speech, its not a bit racist<br \/>\nNo fan of PC, yet I still cannot see<br \/>\nNow not hateful is his verse as its basest.<\/p>\n<p>He never read Smith, not one little bit<br \/>\nWho of Gypsies in space in his time mused:<br \/>\nIt would be a space where bigotry&#8217;s not commonplace<br \/>\nWhere for their blood his people would not be abused.<\/p>\n<address>Glossary: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlie_Smith_(Romani_poet)\">Charlie Smith<\/a> was a Rominchal poet, author of the poem &#8220;Space Gypsies&#8221;. Written in reaction to a piece by a fellow writer, who has a piece &#8220;Gypsies in Space&#8221; poking fun at Travellers, and reads it to universal cringing and the guffaws of bigots and Middle Irelanders,\u00a0 forgetting a lot of the British stereotypes of the native Irish in Ulster is the same.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no knave brought to book Who has won a drunken cheer\u2014 The witty man and his joke Aimed at the commonest ear, The clever man who cries The catch cries of the clown ~ &#8220;The Fisherman&#8221; W.B. Yeats Too many guffaws against politeness laws Words of hate uttered to sneer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,54,56,1],"tags":[1007,1005,1006,1004],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations-from-quotations","category-ireland","category-racism-in-ireland","category-uncategorized","tag-charlie-smith","tag-gypsies-in-space","tag-rominchal","tag-space-gypsies","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-cl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3485,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/no-horse-sense-in-galway\/","url_meta":{"origin":765,"position":0},"title":"No Horse Sense in Galway","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The furore being kicked up over urban horses by supporters of Mike Cubbard a city council member rumbles on. 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