Hillsborough's next poet laureate?

We receive many, many e-mails in our general-use inbox each day. Many of them are online newsletters for a wide range of political causes and syndicated political columns or PR story pitches from Texas. That is why my Wednesdays go something like: post content to Web site, sort through e-mails, file stories, maybe a phone call or two.

We also occasionally receive spontaneous, themed poems from readers. Here's one from Tim Langford about tonight's Ladies Night Out event:

"Broads Abroad"
by Tim Langford

“Broads Abroad!,” my paper reads,
“Hillsborough is under siege,
Lock your doors, cut out your lights,
Prepare for unspeakable deeds!”

From there and here the “birds” flutter in,
Bringing scandal, shock and fear,
Surely my mother won’t find out,
Oh my! I think she’s here!

For hundreds of years this town has stood,
Upon this very spot,
But now its future is in doubt,
It’s Hillsborough’s “Ladies Night Out!”

Have a good Thursday.