Poet Laureate composes an ode to Frome Half Marathon!

Winner of the title 2016 Frome Festival Poet Laureate, John Christopher Wood, has composed this witty ditty to celebrate the involvement of Frome Mayor Toby Eliot and his Deputy Al O’Kane in the Frome Half Marathon.

THE USES OF MAYOR WARE. 

The Mayor is doing a 10K run.

He’s doing it for charity.

It’s to try to raise some money,

And to make it feel more funny

He’s doing the whole thing

In full mayoral bling,

Which for charity hilarity

has no parity.

A chain of office weighs a ton;

Running in it’s not much fun.

So to schlep around a whole 10K

Is a feat extremely schleppity.

But he’s not doing it all alone –

He’s running it with his deputy.

Councillors like these are good for Frome;

It’s party politics that wrecks it.

These feisty Independents are

A much more positive Frexit.

And it’s a turnaround beyond

compare,

Politically it’s rather stunning –

First to be running for Mayor,

And now to be Mayor for running.