Poor Value for Money
Called a plebiscite!
So why were they elected?
Not earning their pay.
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Monday, August 14, 2017
1192 - The Astrophysicist
The Astrophysicist
Staring down voodoo;
Pointing the finger of scorn
At superstitions.
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1191 - Once a Knight
Once a Knight
A woman who itched for a fight,
Donned the outfit of a knight.
Her desire was so great
She forgot the breast plate
And was duly impaled on the night.
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1190 - Humanity
Humanity
On a Melbourne street
An old, homeless man, sitting,
Doing a crossword.
Why is it like this?
Is this who we have become?
I leave some money.
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1189 - Poor Starving Darlings
Poor Starving Darlings
At movies and plays
They only go for two hours:
Why must people eat?
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1188 - Like a Cuban
Like a Cuban
Sitting on the Porch
For family discussions—
Just like Cuba.
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1187 - Le Snag Dog.
Le Snag Dog.
Are French Sausage Dogs
Chien de Charcuterie?
Where are the poodles?
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1186 - Marble Halls
Marble Halls
A marbled bathroom.
It feels a little Roman
But is far from it.
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1185 - OMG
OMG!
The Old Melbourne Goal
Victorian punishment.
No padded cells here.
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1184 - Justifiable Homicide
Justifiable Homicide
When told of a woman who 'blows',
Men queued at her door, in droves.
Their wives were less thrilled
And had them all killed
And buried in orderly rows.
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1183 - Office Work
Office Workers
The office workers.
A parallel universe.
We watch from our bed.
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1182 - Ned
Ned
There was a young fellow called Ned
Who put a tin can on his head.
The flaw in his plan
Of the Invincible Man
Was they shot at his legs instead.
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1181 - The Golden Plates
The Golden Plates
The Book of Mormon—
Seems even more deluded
Than the other ‘Books’.
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1180 - Goose
Goose.
Then there’s Mother Goose:
Why do the true believers
Not believe in her?
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1179 - Good News
Good News
Holiday pleasures:
Reading the papers in bed…
And someone else cleans.
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1178 - Volcanic Consequences
Volcanic Consequences
Donald Trump’s Pompei:
We will all die as we are—
The final embrace.
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1177 - One Day at a Time
One Day at a Time
Angry little boy.
I check the morning newscast:
The world is still there.
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1176 - Basic
Basic
A primal pleasure,
Built into our DNA,
A naked embrace.
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1175 - Refugees
Refugees
They left from Ireland
To look for a better life.
Some things never change.
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1174 - Small Bore
Small Bore
The gun is now locked
And, apparently, loaded.
This cannot end well.
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1173 - Turtle Doves
Turtle Doves
The morning chorus,
Waiting patiently for food:
The coo-coos of hope.
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1172 - Poor Little Me
Poor Little Me
“Oh poor little me!
You had it much easier!”
Giving us guilt trips.
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1171 - Wet Hen
Wet Hen
Calamity Jane
It is always a crisis—
The wet hen syndrome.
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1170 - Bones
Bones.
A cunning young woman used groans
To keep guys attentive and prone.
While she got her own joys
The emaciated boys
Degenerated to nothing but bones.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
1169 - No Butts!
No butts!
Lycra clad buttocks—
Stretched, they display far too much.
Drivers, too, are cleft.
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1168 - Folly
Hiroshima Day - August 6th.
Folly.
Seventy years on
And how many thousands of deaths?
We have learnt nothing.
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1167 - Away!
Away!
Mini holiday.
Five stars and it costs the earth—
But good to escape.
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1166 - Just Equal
Just Equal.
They are not less equal
And nor are they less equal.
They are just equal.
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1165 - Missed
Missed
A lady who caused quite a stir
When seen naked, excluding some fur,
Thought what she should do
Was keep her nipples from view
But wasn’t too sure where they were.
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
1164 - Have a nice day...nice day...nice day
Have a nice day...nice day...nice day
Wretched self-checkouts.
Just like sheep in a stock run.
No humanity.
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1163 - She’ll be apples
She’ll be apples.
Cold storage? maybe.
But who can really complain—
Beautifully crisp.
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1162 - I Wrote
I wrote
I wrote a letter
I wonder if you got it?
Did you open it?
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1161 - Ratings Time
Ratings Time
A woman was trying to rank
The men who’d lay by her flank—
But she couldn’t decide
If the time of the ride
Trumped the length and the width of their shank
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Wednesday, August 09, 2017
1160 - Running on MT
Running on MT
Just a limp puppet,
A gutless bloody wonder.
For fuck’s sake, just go.
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1159 - Snouts ahoy!
Snouts ahoy!
The endless buffet!
Not a pretty thing to see—
Like pigs at a trough.
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1158 - Send them off!
Send them off!
Some people play rough—
Play the man and not the ball.
So don’t play their game.
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