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The Bold and Spikey Poetry Show was a couple of British guys reciting somewhat dour poetry about angry bus drivers, the end of the world, the idiocy of love (that one’s a title), the right to life (but not the kind you’re thinking of), and Veterans/Remembrance Day. All in all it was good, even if I do sometimes have trouble following rhyming poetry (it lulls my brain to sleep). These were pretty funny though. I liked Bold better than Spikey (names assigned by us as the audience, not by themselves — one is bald and the other has a big purple spike in the front of his hair — actually Gollum is a better name for Bold). Spikey overused repetition in his poetry and generally the delivery was harder to follow, while Gollum/Bold/Bald tended towards the lighthearted.

My favorites were the angry bus driver (about a hijacked bus where the bus driver starts to enjoy the things the hijacker wants him to do — and has a bit of a surprise ending), the end of the world one (actually called The Day the Earth Stopped Turning) which was about the idea that humanity would be freed from its ills if it knew there was no more — sort of a baudy version of Imagine maybe, and the Veterans Day one that Bold claimed was both commissioned AND banned by the BBC which ended in the sentiment (like it or love it) that “as long as we send people to replace them, we should wear our poppies with shame and not pride.”

They were definitely worth it.