TAKING OFFENCE

 

People are so easily offended today

This is quite ironic really

As due to political correctness

We are censored so heavily

And with all the sanitising

There is so little opportunity

But those who do take offence

Fall into three distinct categories

 

Firstly, the genuinely offended

Those who feel the detriment, 

Whose opinion is seldom heard

Unless it’s politically expedient

 

Second, the white middle class heterosexuals

Who like to be offended on others behalf

And are particularly suspicious

At anything that gets a laugh

 

Thirdly, come the professionals

Those who get offended for a living

They frequent the morning TV sofas

And are relentlessly unforgiving

 

The professionals feel no offence

But find their roles financially fulfilling

They will take umbrage for anyone

Just to earn another shilling

 

Even worse however is anticipated offence

Those who want to act just in case

Some unspeakable offence may be caused

If things are unchanged or left in place

 

The original intention may well have been

That a better society was planned

But what they have managed to do instead

Is to make the world more bland