Don’t you hate it
When at the last minute
A hand comes around
The lift door
and stops the process?
I freely admit
I am a lift nazi.
And it drives me to distraction!
‘WAIT AND CATCH THE NEXT LIFT YOU SELFISH BASTARD!”
My inner voice screams
Whenever I see that self-satisfied face,
Sliding into the lift with the rest of us,
As if it has achieved something,
Right there at the last minute, no fucken fuss.
Australia used to be
The land of the fair go
But that's gone now
It drowned
In the sea of self focus.
I only agree
With a fair go for 'we'
If I get more
Than you,
Then it is a fair go
I can get into.
Fear has replaced hope
Because it suits the politicians
For us to all believe
the country is broke,
Then they can give the spoils
To the people
Who pay them
The most.
We are governing
For everyone,
Which is true,
If you understand
'Everyone' is them
And the rich
They are,
Or wanna be.
You got nothing
That's because you are lazy
And you just don't
Try hard enough.
A bad life
Full of strife
Is an inconvenient truth
For the silver spoons
In charge.
Life isn't always fair
And the good don't always win
Sometimes the strong succeed
Not the worthy.
And sometimes it is the corrupt
And you have to suck it up
And proceed.
Karma is just an expression
To make us all feel better.
Americans like racism, and gun violence
But they can’t abide nudity, or blood sausage.
And don’t say toilet, when you mean ‘bathroom’
They might accidentally picture something,
Presumably, who the fuck knows?
Like Americans generally,
A mystery, to us all.
The religious
Want freedoms,
In their heads
It can’t not
be about them,
because they have
god on their side.
You know its
worldwide,
this idea
of god
creating the world,
then 800 million
years later
creating man,
then 200 thousand
years later
God sent his son
to tell man
how it’s done.
