King Abdullah I23 Apr 2004

Make your eyes look at this:

1. The quirky use of "as they pleases" instead of "as they please" to force a rhyme with the word "diseases" sounds like something Dr Seuss might have written;

2. The idea of a person's "organs" getting "the wheezes" sounds like the ill-advised joke of a red-faced provincial vicar;

3. The description of dying and being deposited in a mortuary as being "filched" to the "freezers" looks as though it was intended to raise a laugh;

4. The rest of the poem is similarly funny.

Are you genuine in saying that this poem was not intended to be light-hearted and/or amusing?