Being right doesn’t mean the same as permission
to strut and preen; any legitimacy to ponce like its
an achievement’s an obscene caricature of a use-
by-date-expired and over-weight b&w movie star
if you can savvy that difference, there’s a chance
you’ll survive the next round of interrogation; now
who is your favourite member of the Legislature -
if Joe ‘Ogre’ Hockey, Christopher ‘Weasel’ Pyne
or his eminence Tony ‘Bugger-lugs’ Abbott you’re
probably okay to proceed with, & why we explain
behaviour in elect company; if it’s Julie ‘Vacuous’
or Bronwyn ‘Umbrage’ Bishop - we’ll pass on it
if it’s any of the other mob disgracing parliament -
and that’s probably too refined a statement taken
quite literally as the truth, we’ll pass again on the
grounds there’s enough slapstick humour around
so don’t sass us again with your finagled bent on
trashy show-off stuff we don’t give a damn about
anyway; you’re wrong as you used it to make us
look like the idiots we are, & don’t forget it, okay
© 27 November 2014, I. D. Carswell
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