Word Wars

Take a ringside seat and witness two mighty dictionaries, Oxford and Collins, slug it out for the WBC ( World Book Championship )!

Two Giants faced one another-
The hardback heavies!
W.B.C (World Book Championship)
Heavyweight contenders

Ringside seats bookmarked
Hemingway, Official bell ringer
For whom the bell tolls!
Dictionary dynamite showdown

Oxford and Collin's
Word Power pugilists
Looked each other up
A thesaurus in each neutral corner

The grammar Gestapo
Looked on indignantly
Chainsmoking on language weed
The book case now an arena

While the roar of the fiction
Clamouring for a pulping!
Shouted down the romance books
Smell of ink, intoxicating the crowd

Popular psychology were on the edge
Of their ringside soft- pine mindsets
Observing the laid back paperbacks
Noting their spineless postures

War and Peace, an intellectual
Amongst the ink thirsty penny dreadfuls
Looked on in disdain and knew
Tolstoy could have been referee

Had not Cormac McCarthy intervened
Pontificating in menacing tones
This is 'No country for old men!'
Usurping the referee's crown

Each protagonist, rolled up their sleeves
Betraying battlescars, proudly earned
Turned down corners, tea-stained pages
Products of an unsheltered life
Hallmarks of a library's regime

By now it was an ugly affair
As the secondhand stalls rioted
Producing razor blades and petrol
As a fanatical classic lit a match!

Pandemonium swept the innocent
Purebred pulitzers profoundly puzzled
As a blazing inferno went to work
Fuelled by the captive paper throngs

The sprinkler system kicked in then
A deluge of water finished them off
As Oxford and Collins lay side by side
The ink running black on their watery grave!

That was the end of the W.B.C(World Book Championship)....