Escape From The Office Poem by Peter (Prof) Fox

In the week I work in an office
Shuffling paper and fiddling with pens
It's really incredibly boring
I can't wait 'til it gets to weekends

I go away to reenactments
You know - like the old Sealed Knot
It's great fun to have a good fight
And fills a need that I've got

I thought about Celts and the Romans
And tried some Saxon and Viking
The Civil war was just a big bore
Then I found something more to my liking

I've joined the Old Testament Horde
We enact scenes from out of the Bible
We've Nebuchadnezzar and pharos
Engaging in battles most tribal

But slingshots and shields in a sandpit
Are not what we like to do most
Our favourite battle 's in heaven
As the bad angels get turfed out of the host

I'm on the side of the devils
We have weapons and many rough moves
The get-up is really quite frightening
Though I do wish we didn't wear hooves

I wouldn't like being an angel
So pure, humble and meek
All that they do if you hit them
Is offer their other cheek

I have been laid out by a harp.
Oh so 'accidentally' of course!
And the thing that made me most mad
Was the angel's girly remorse

After the battle is over
In civvies we go for some grub
Angels and devils together
Drinking away in a pub

Some lovely people you meet there
I've got my eye on a cherub
She's not that pure I can tell you
Tonight I'll be her Beelzebub

So it's back to the office on Monday
After a weekend of mad sex in a tent...
...Sad to say it was all just a daydream
One of the many I have to invent.