It is daily in the news
How can anyone miss it?
Everyone is discussing
What’s “essential practice”!
Wearing fancy headgear
Was once a matter of pride
Even if there was nothing
But lot of prejudice inside!
It is optional for milords
To wear a scowl or frown
For blackcoats to impress
What’s essential is a gown!
Knowledge is not essential
But contacts are required
(With those in high places
Not with the tired or retired!)
With disposal rates paralysed
Endless hearings are a crime
It should be “essential practice”
To apportion argument time!
Yet for guaranteed results
It is essential to brief a face
That is palatable to milords
(Not essential you have a case!)
