The Tyranny of Tradition

(as partially formulated by psychologist and poet RD Laing in his book “Knots”)

They are playing a game about Bill Ward.

They are playing at not playing a game about Bill Ward.

If I show them I see they are,

I shall break the rules and they will tell me I’m not metal.

I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

They are not having fun playing the Bill Ward game.

I can’t have fun if they don’t.

If I get them to have fun when playing the Bill Ward game, then I can have fun with them.

Getting them to have fun, is not fun. It is hard work.

I might get fun out of finding out why they’re not.

I’m not supposed to get fun out of working out why

they’re not.

But there is even some fun in pretending to them I’m not

having fun finding out why they ’re not.

Sharon comes along and says: let’s have fun, but without Bill.

But having fun is a waste of time, because it doesn’t

help to figure out why they’re not having fun.

How dare you have fun when Ozzy died on the Cross

For You!

Was He having fun?

Is Sharon having fun?

Is this fun?

Is it fun that Bill Ward is not having fun?

Is it fun that we are having fun about Sharon not having fun?

Is Ozzy having fun not having fun because Sharon is not having fun making Bill Ward not have fun?

Where are we anymore?