2010/10/19 Vogon Poetry Poem by Margaret Alice

Alice stared aghast, Vogon poetry all the rage
created by machines, heads exploding all the
time, everyone floating off to sea, people
commiting crimes to escape from the
hellish sounds

Alice looked up to see Douglas Adams passing
by, pedalling a Penny-farthing and whistling a
toneless tune while on his neck the Cheshire
cat was happily declaiming the virtue of
Vogons as society’s scourge

Alice heard Ford Perfect reading aloud from the
Hitch-hikers’ Guide describing Vogon art, Momo
and Girolamo should have warned Alice not to
enter the sad Galaxy where Douglas Adams
held sway

A place of misery where a spacecraft, interrupted in
take-off, hold passengers and crew in eternal freeze
interspersed with brief take-off speeches before the
horror of being freezed again, a ritual repeated for
eternity, Arthur Dent looking on

What nightmare world is this, can I ever ecape?
Alice asked, luckily she was spared a reply by
the earth being blown up for a new by-pass
across the sky, Arthur Dent held Alice’s hand
as Zaphoid Beeblebrox

Stopped to pick them up, Did you find a way to
open your brain? Arthur asked, Zaphoid
laughed, Yes, an overdose of Vogon
poetry did the trick - now I am free
to live a new life…


Based on Douglas Adam’s “The Hitch-hiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy” and its sequels with a
reference to characters in 'Momo' by Michael
Ende and 'Alice in Wonderland' Lewis Carrol