Stranded on a dessert isle, a bunch of boys defies
Logic with their actions in the book Lord of the Flies.
A pretty crummy novel, with a pretty crummy theme,
That mimics all the antics of a high school football team.
William Golding wrote the tale to show that men are beasts
Unless they have firm government and brimstone-spouting priests.
Even though the whole thing is put up as allegory
It's got blood and guts just like a Stephen King short story.
The boys begin their journey by electing someone boss
But after that they seem to be completely at a loss.
They hunt a pig and put its head upon a sharpened stick
And what they do to fat boys ought to make you mighty sick.
Everyone wears war paint, runs around in underwear,
Beats up on his neighbor and does nothing much but swear.
Of course the kids are British which does help explain a lot;
They can never hold elections without being overwrought.
At last the boys are rescued by the noble British fleet
But not before a few of them are turned into mincemeat.
This is required reading in our colleges today—
No wonder kids would rather all those video games play.
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