Roger Woddis' "Ethics for Everyman"
The Daily Poem
Goldberry Studios
4.6 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Today’s poem–from British humorist Roger Woddis–is a witty-yet-withering sendup of double-morality. Happy reading.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios. I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Friday, July 11th, 2025. And since this has already been a week for political poetry, it seemed like this Friday's lighter verse ought to be a saucy one from Roger Wattis. It's called |
| 0:23.5 | Ethics for Everyman. Here it is. Ethics for Everyman. |
| 0:31.6 | Throwing a bomb is bad. Dropping a bomb is good. Terror, no need to add, depends on who's wearing the hood. |
| 0:41.4 | Kangaroo courts are wrong. Specialist courts are right. Discipline by the strong is fair if your |
| 0:49.0 | collar is white. Company output soars. Wages, of course, explode. |
| 0:55.7 | Profits deserve applause, pay claims the criminal code. |
| 1:00.3 | Daily, the church declares betting shops are a curse, |
| 1:04.0 | gambling with stocks and shares enlarges the national purse. |
| 1:08.7 | Workers are absentees, businessmen relax, different as chalk national purse. Workers are absentees. |
| 1:12.3 | Businessmen relax. |
| 1:14.5 | Different as chalk and cheese. |
| 1:18.2 | Social morality has a duality, |
| 1:20.9 | one for each side of the tracks. |
| 1:25.7 | This has been the daily poem. |
| 1:26.9 | Thanks for listening. |
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