Balderdash

Day three of RWC 2015, no dramas yet ‘tho 

there’ll be cause for concern in some camps 

if measured by cause and effect; winning’s a

treat if it answers the question - did you play 

the game you’d planned, or did they; & then 

there’s referee machinations, some bizarre - 

&, at times - eccentrically wrapped in views 

indecently distant from cosily consummate 

Accepted that ‘foreign accents’ lend a depth 

where shadows blend edges into planes, so 

one mustn’t step off-line, land in a minefield 

of arbitration; The Game’s ‘grand plan’ is an

endeavour t’ beat crap out o’ th’ balderdash 

rank in those internecine iterations - and, 

Could we say - being offside far too often 

© 21 September 2015, I. D. Carswell