(Actually it’s fourteen lines so maybe I should have called a sonnet even though the rhyme scheme is neither Petrarchan nor Shakespearean!)
Scotty promised vaccination
So we could open up the nation
And allow some interstate vacations
At least that was his inclination.
I clearly remember many headlines
About all those October deadlines.
But we shouldn’t think it strange
When the ideas of governments change
And we’re told that targets won’t be aimed for
So there’s nothing they’ll be blamed for
So Scotty can quickly pass the buck
Telling us that we’re out of luck!
His subtext being: “It’s all fine
Already I’ve been given mine!?”
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Although Australia’s out of luck
Our pissant dealer can “Goan get flucked”
Great rhyming article here Rossleigh! This fucking lying loser is our Pimp MInister? I think the only thing he is “good” at is telling lies & then shifting blame to other people! There is NO WAY he should ever be our leader! Sadly, far too many of the voting age people will still probably re-elect this useless scumbag & his rabble of a political party! God help us, & I am not religious!
Beautifully summed up Rossleigh, and so succinctly the world view of the ‘ what’s in it for me ‘ and ‘What’s my next annouce-able ‘ Prime Marketeer ‘.
Rossleigh, do you have a day job? 😁
Only joking, mate. That was good. Got a smile out of Carol and I.
Rossleigh, are you establishing a poetry section at AIMN to demonstrate that incompetent governments can be ridiculed in many imaginative ways as well as reporting their inept personal performances? bring it on!!! Henry would be impressed with your doggerel.
NEC…. I don’t know whether you were referring to me, but I am always impressed with more imaginative ways of pouring shit on Scummo and his mob of wankers. They deserve all that we can throw at them.
Kudos to Rossleigh.
@Henry Rodrigues: If you like, but my comment was about Henry Lawson, one of the great Australian poets of the late 19th – early 20th century. He had a long running poetical debate with Banjo Patterson, another great Australian poet of that period, who was a bosses man by birth-right and lived the life of Riley among the station owners.
Henry Lawson was a worker who had experienced the many trials of country living combined with alcoholism. Very much a worker, expressing worker sentiments to balance the glorifying images of Patterson.
Thank you NEC for putting me right. Yes I have read about Henry Lawson and his life story though not mush of his poetry. It was presumptious of me to be considered along side the one and only Lawson but my sentiments are very much in line.
Scotty isn’t outcome-based
Scotty is in fact two-faced
Reject the premise of your question
How dare you make such a suggestion
Cue Chris Uhlmann for a Dorothy Dixxer
Scotty our boy will be the fixer
Build a coop and don a cap
Let the women whinge on their WhatsApp
We’ll meet our targets in a canter
Wink wink nudge nudge it’s all just banter
Scott’s the Messiah from the Shire
Or, as time will show, an inadequate liar
The marketing man has no plan
Except to extort all he can