Remember Remember

 When Guy Fawkes was caught trying to blow up Parliament we got a cultural festival out of it.  

But in the boring 21st century MI5 have foiled 43 terrorist plots since 2017 and we haven't got one fucking poem out of it.  It's time to fix this so...

Remember, remember!

The 22nd of December,

Richard Reid tried to ignite his trainer

I know of no reason

Why shoes with semtex in 

Should not be in a poem!

Reid and the Taliban 

Did the scheme contrive,

To blow Boeing passengers

All up alive.

Two hollowed out shoes he had set to blow

but his sweaty feet made the fuse too damp so

by Allah's providence, him they did catch,

after the passengers beat him up when he lit a match!