Plague Songs - The Elephant in the Room: At The Commencement of the Latest Lockdown / by Rich Hobbs

The elephant that’s in this room

Just shat upon the floor.

I know what everybody says;

They say - simply ignore!

But when the bastard’s shat again

No self respecting chatelaine

Could cope with it much longer. Furthermore

That elephant’s been in this room since,

Let’s see, well before,

The end of March, and just slouched round

To block the exit door!

And now he gone and shat again!

Over my Persian mat! Explain

How we endure this for a month! Before

The latest rules I tried to tie

A face mask to his trunk.

He lifted his enormous leg

And showered me with spunk,

And now the fucker’s shat again!

He’s on some fucking scat campaign!

The worst of it’s I can’t even get drunk.

That’s because all of the booze

Long since went up his trunk.

Plus he’s scoffed all of the biscuits,

Though there’s nowt in which to dunk

And - Jesus Christ - he’s shat again!

And tough if you find that profane,

Because the cunt’s just shat another hunk!

Stuck with each other in this tiny room

We two shall skulk.

I’ll try and finish off this verse

And he, no doubt, will sulk.

And obviously he’s shat again.

Torment like this would twat Verlaine.

Very soon I hope that he will crush me with his bulk.

The alternative is paddling in his poop,

Spread through the room,

Though what the creature symbolises

I dare not to presume.

I’ll just observe, he’s shat again.

I think you might find that germane

As we glower at each other, left together in this tomb.