Turning over the pages <br />of the national newspaper <br />half-alert, this morning, <br /> <br />shock-horror! A full-page photo of, <br />can it be? Jade Goody, the motormouth <br />invited back to Big Brother for <br />obvious reasons, who’s caused <br />world-wide repercussions for abusing <br />an equally cunningly chosen Muslim <br />of compassionate intellligence..so, controversy; <br />a troublesome flea in the charmpit of <br />the body politic.. <br /> <br />oh, no - it’s a model who just looks like her, <br />advertising at huge expense, <br />Specsavers’ ‘Varifocal’ glasses… <br /> <br />ah! that’s the word we need – <br /> <br />varifocal… <br /> <br />and aren’t we all? sometimes we focus <br />on the short-range, sometimes on the long; <br />Jade; TV producers; media; politicians; <br />motormouths the lot of us; one day <br />we hate the Muslims or the Christians next door, <br />and their perpetual cooking smells of curry <br />or of vinegared fish-and-chips; <br />next day we are on our varicultural best behaviour, <br />almost, but not quite, inviting them to eat with us; <br />it’s called freedom of speech, integration, democracy.. <br /> <br />Even as I speak, varifocal editors of varifocal media <br />are preparing balanced feature articles by <br />varifocal feature writers entitled <br />‘Jade Goody – true voice of Britain? ’ <br />and we’ll pour the milk on our breakfast fodder <br />and slip on our varifocals with the other hand.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/goody-or-baddy-a-varifocal-view/
