The Centipede from Pontyprid

This front page expose from today's Cambrian News has given me an idea for a piece of #badpoetry

"Dad, why dunt yew pronounce the dd at the end of Pontypridd?"

Cedric the centipede looked at his father

Sebastopol, the senior centipede had been dreading this day.

"Why can't you ask me about the birds and the bees instead of the double d in Pontypridd?"

"Cos I know all about em, I been watching them at it in the garden"

'Seb' to his butties raised his caterpillar eyebrows to the ceiling 

"Well you see son, yewer grandfather and his grandfather before that came by ere for work at the start of the Centripedal Revolution

and they were a bit too busy to fuss with the minutiae of pronunciation"

"They were lazy you mean?"

"Curse you, you little scamp, they worked damned hard down underground, their little legs doing the work of ten men"  

"But Dad, I didn't mean to offend but it's not hard is it? it just requires a little bit of effort,

a bit of recognition that the place that yew have come to live and work is made of different stuff to that from which yew have come"

"Bugger me Cedric, ave yew swallowed a dictionary again?"

"I told yew not to get down that library as a little learning is a dangerous thing"  

"So how come I can say Pontypridd and yew can't father?"

"Are yew trying to shame me?"

"Put yewer tongue between yewer front teeth and blow"

"Since when have Centipedes had teeth Cedric?"

"It's any excuse with yew"

"You can chat back to yewer father, 

yew wait until you go and stay with yewer Uncle Seilas in 

Machynlleth"

Further Reading
https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-moth-with-hobnailed-boots.html

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-possibility-of-planetarium-in-ponty.html

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-owl-wot-got-into-front-room-via.html

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2017/05/flash-savior-of-universe.html