These Foolish Things

I've done some truly stupid things today.
I must have lost my common sense, it's true,
but now I'm glad I did them anyway.
 

I asked a politician what he'd say,
were he confronted by the boys in blue.
"I've done some truly stupid things today -

I fiddled my expenses and my pay,
to con the general public (that means you),
but now I'm glad I did them anyway."

I kicked him up the arse, well out of play,
and watched him squirm without a bloody clue.
I've done some truly stupid things today.
 

For all these things, disaster, come what may,
will strike us down, far worse than porcine flu,
but now I'm glad I did them anyway.

Obsequious fools may genuflect and pray.
These foolish things remind me, not of you,
I've done some truly stupid things today,
but now I'm glad I did them anyway.