SpokenVerse | Poem "And if it snowed..." by Simon Armitage (read by Tom O'Bedlam) @SpokenVerse | Uploaded May 2014 | Updated October 2024, 28 minutes ago.
Simon Armitage is from Huddersfield in Yorkshire. The poem is about everyday events related in the everyday speech of the working-class of this northern town, which gives it a gritty realism. I'm trying to give the impression of a Yorkshire accent.
The phrases look like cliches but they're not - their familiarity punches the message home. People do good things and bad things.
The good things he did were long term and planned. The bad things he did were brief, impulsive lapses from his usual high standards. This is just an observation, I'm not condoning what he did nor apologising for him.
The Joker
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And if it snowed and snow covered the drive
he took a spade and tossed it to one side.
And always tucked his daughter up at night
And slippered her the one time that she lied.
And every week he tipped up half his wage.
And what he didn't spend each week he saved.
And praised his wife for every meal she made.
And once, for laughing, punched her in the face.
And for his mum he hired a private nurse.
And every Sunday taxied her to church.
And he blubbed when she went from bad to worse.
And twice he lifted ten quid from her purse.
Here's how they rated him when they looked back:
Sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.
Simon Armitage is from Huddersfield in Yorkshire. The poem is about everyday events related in the everyday speech of the working-class of this northern town, which gives it a gritty realism. I'm trying to give the impression of a Yorkshire accent.
The phrases look like cliches but they're not - their familiarity punches the message home. People do good things and bad things.
The good things he did were long term and planned. The bad things he did were brief, impulsive lapses from his usual high standards. This is just an observation, I'm not condoning what he did nor apologising for him.
The Joker
fanpop.com/clubs/batman/images/19905461/title/joker-fanart
And if it snowed and snow covered the drive
he took a spade and tossed it to one side.
And always tucked his daughter up at night
And slippered her the one time that she lied.
And every week he tipped up half his wage.
And what he didn't spend each week he saved.
And praised his wife for every meal she made.
And once, for laughing, punched her in the face.
And for his mum he hired a private nurse.
And every Sunday taxied her to church.
And he blubbed when she went from bad to worse.
And twice he lifted ten quid from her purse.
Here's how they rated him when they looked back:
Sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that.
