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A boy called Jaydon - A Cautionary Tale in Three Parts.

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Psammead · 07/06/2010 16:33

The Birth

The child arrived after one last great push,
The hormonal surge turned mum's mind into moosh
As she gazed at the angel with dreams and hopes laden
and whispered 'I think I will call him... Jaydon'.
The midwives all gasped, the father did groan
But too late! The boy's fate was now set in stone.
The baby did change before mum's fearful eyes
And a regional accent distorted his cries.
From his sweet little ear so soft and endearing
Emerged a cheap-looking, gold-plated earring.
Mum resolved to try with all of her might
To make sure that Jaydon turned out alright.
But her evil curse on the child was hard to forget
And her fears were confirmed whilst browsing mumset.
Lo, let us proceed in time for to see
What young Jaydon was like at the grand age of three.

Childhood

Refusing the offer of free-range organic eggs
Master Jaydon would only eat sausage rolls from Greggs.
Fruit shoots were all that he would drink
And his love of TV made his poor mum's heart sink.
In the playground the other children were fearful
And would run to their mothers, angst-ridden and tearful
In case they too caught his fearful disease
and forgot how to say 'aga' in Mandarin Chinese.
His teachers knew he was a lost cause on sight
And no matter how nicely he attempted to write
Would always award him an 'F' and 'see me'
They knew he'd not get a 'decent' degree.
To exam halls they always refused him admission
As the local school board had a 'no Jaydon's' condition
No G.C.S.E.'s in this lad's future, you know
Though they gave him an honorary A.S.B.O.

Adulthood and beyond

Alone in his bedsit above a Chinese
Jaydon watches one of his three wide-screen TVs
He cruises the streets with his track-suited crew
On a never ending search for cheap special brew
No job to restrict him, he roams through the town
As his girlfriend goes shopping in her dressing gown
And despite both their parent's middle-class dreams
They wear George at Asda and eat custard creams.
It's not Jaydon's fault how he turned out, you see
But rather his name (which is somewhat chavvy)
It's a well-know fact that a collection of letters
Separates down-and-outs from their nicely-named betters.
Had Jaydon been Charles or Alex or Stan
He'd have been a doctor or rich business man
So don't pick what sounds nice in case it's taboo
And if you think that's the case, then the joke is on you.

Really, people - class is only an issue if you MAKE it an issue! Hope all mums of Jaydons out there see the funny side of this - I think it's a fine name and there were hundreds I could have chosen instead

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NiceCuppaT · 08/06/2010 14:42

Fab, can't wait!!!

cheesesarnie · 08/06/2010 14:46

very clever!

LouIsWaltzingMatilda · 08/06/2010 15:00

You are so clever!

Psammead · 08/06/2010 17:03

OK, here goes - again intended to point out how silly it is to think that a name seals your future.

The Tragedy of Persephone ? or The Accidental Ponces. The surprise

The parents-to-be shared a crooked-toothed grin
As mum rubbed her belly and downed her third gin
The both lit a roll-up and Dad switched on the game
Secure in the knowledge that they?d chose ?his? name
(In the interest of fairness, the name I?m not telling,
though you can be assured it had a kreeativ spelling)
Mum got on netmums and announced the good news
To a chorus of ?nice 1, hun?s and emotes to peruse
It was whilst she was choosing a really nice ticker
That she noticed the floor around her was slicker.
?My wa?ers!? she moaned with unhappy inflection,
?Twas weeks before her planned caesarean section.
The baby was born on their Argos settee
But something was missing! Not a ?he?, but a ?she?!
Dad opened the baby name book with a groan
The page randomly fell on?. Err? ?Percy-phone? ?

A stranger in their midst

That something was wrong from the start was quite clear
Babs spat out her bottle with a middle-class sneer
At six months of age her parents did panic
When she?d eat nothing but Waitrose veg (organic)
No chocolate she?d eat if it wasn?t Fair Trade
And she turned up her nose at Coke and Lemonade
Young Persephone threw her parents into a paddy
When she insisted on calling them ?Mother? and ?Daddy?.
Ashamed of her parents, she only got meaner
And pretended at school that her mum was her cleaner.
As a teen she hung posters of black labs and jeeps
And confused all her school friends by calling them ?peeps?.
When she turned 18, dad left this sad story
When he dropped dead from shame as she dared to vote Tory.
After this her mother took only a while
To disown her daughter on Jeremy Kyle.

The later years

Seph realised she couldn?t stay on the estate
And moved to a town house in old Harrogate
With original features, sash windows and flue
Persephone was finally ?home? ? she just knew.
She worked on her accent, pronounced every ?t?
And eventually gained a good Oxbridge degree.
(Her mother, meanwhile, met a guy on the ?net
and had six more kiddies whose names I forget).
A husband and children completed Seph?s bliss
Though her upper-crust man felt there was something amiss
When, despite herself, she gazed at the window of Primark
So he set out to discover her secret, so dark.
Upon revealing her roots, he was more than unhappy
And smothered her to death with their daughter?s cloth nappy.
A warning to the working class mums of this nation!
When naming your children, consider your station!

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AddictedtoCrunchies · 08/06/2010 17:09

That is brilliant!!!!

Booboobedoo · 08/06/2010 17:14

Ooh, you're good.

I could barely write my name when I was breastfeeding.

LuluF · 08/06/2010 17:15

Is very funny - and so quick!

MarshaBrady · 08/06/2010 17:17

Excellent!

4andnotout · 08/06/2010 17:24

You are brilliant-Fact.

TheLadyOfTheGreenKirtle · 08/06/2010 17:24

genius!!

NiceCuppaT · 08/06/2010 17:28

you need to send these somewhere!!

cravingcroissants · 08/06/2010 17:29

That's fab! You're sooo funny.
I was laughing out loud at ,'..and pretended at school her mum was her cleaner.'

LutyensCBA · 08/06/2010 17:33

Best thing I've read in ages! I am so jealous of your talent

grapeandlemon · 08/06/2010 17:39

absolutely brilliant!

confuddledDOTcom · 08/06/2010 17:41

Excellent! Well done

isthatporridgeinyourhair · 08/06/2010 17:47

PMSL - a Classic don't you think?

MarshaBrady · 08/06/2010 17:49

yep needs to be an MN classic

LittleWhiteWolf · 08/06/2010 17:52

Fantastic, both of them!

SacharissaCripslock · 08/06/2010 17:52

Fantastic!

williewalshsballs · 08/06/2010 17:56

veeerrry good. yy send these off.
you're miles better than what's her name who has a blog and writes for the times. the one who went off like a loon on here and twitter recently.

GroovyGretel · 08/06/2010 18:03

Fabulous!!

LadyPeterWimsey · 08/06/2010 18:05

Can we name you MN Poet Laureate?

Really fabulous!

Psammead · 08/06/2010 18:11

Thanks everyone It was fun making them up.

More poetry, I say! Post your own compositions on the thread (and take some of the praise off me - I am starting to feel a bit warm)

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DramaInPyjamas · 08/06/2010 18:15

Amazing!

belgo · 08/06/2010 18:22

Fantastic, you've really cheered me up!

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