In response to your letters (Why are QSs in such short supply? QS News, 7 October), I have written a few verses on the theme of missing QSs, called 'Where have all the QSs gone?' (with apologies to Pete Seeger, songwriter and Marlene Dietrich, performer, 1961)
Where have all the QSs gone?
Some time passing
Where have all the QSs gone?
Not so long ago
Lost in a torrent of hyperbole
And chaotic eganism
When will they come again?
When will they come again?
Where have all the QSs gone?
Some time passing
Where have all the QSs gone?
Not so long ago
Muzzled by a fickle trust
For ever higher funding
When will they come again?
When will they come again?
Where have all the QSs gone?
Some time passing
Where have all the QSs gone?
Not so long ago
Abandoned by a central dictum
without a warning sound
When will they come again?
When will they come again?
Where have all the QSs gone?
Some time passing
Where have all the QSs gone?
Obliged to meet all bottom lines
and every possible risk
When will they come again?
When will they come again?
Where have all the QSs gone?
Some time passing
Where have all the QSs gone?
Not so long ago
Gone to Mamon everyone
With not a thought for function
When will they come again?
When will they come again?
James Nisbet, Surrey
Source
QS News
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