Political Poem

It's been a tiring day for me, especially after an overwhelmingly tedious yet extremely fulfilling "5th Singapore Forum on Politics". Before I retire in bed, I feel compelled to share a small part of the forum:

Dr. Catherine Lim was expectedly a colourful and imaginative speaker, able to hold her audience captive. She rounded up her speech with a rather funny poem which some of you might have read somewhere before.

(Based on a well-known statement made by Lee Kuan Yew: that even when dead, he would instantly spring up from his coffin should there be a problem out there for him to solve.)

‘The coffin was enormous
To match the godlike status;
For both in life and death
He was a real Colossus.

Someone who with the opposition
Was clearly in cahoots
Whispered, ‘Ah, a new dawn,
No more defamation suits!’

At which the corpse sprang right up
‘Who said that?’ it roared,
‘He’s defaming my good name,
So get our lawyers on board!’