Truth or Dare

The truth about climate change

Is really very simple,

Due to our collective inaction

And conservative political lies

We are all going to die.

Couple

The ride with you

was worth the fall,

for a time there we knew

what is was like to stand tall.

Worthy of love.

The Opposite of Lemmings

As I crossed the city street,

As I headed to my office, this morning

there were chumps waiting at the lights,

like a flock of sheep standing there,

eyes blinking in the morning light,

the road shut down for road works

no traffic to be seen in either direction.

Incredible, I thought, as I sashayed across,

perhaps with more confidence than was really necessary.

So halfway over, I turned and yelled back at them

"What are you standing there for, there is no traffic."

Mostly they looked uneasy and shuffled on their feet,

they looked uncomfortably from one to the other.

Two made tentative steps to cross the street,

one proceeded, but the other stopped again

when she saw that none of the others were following.

Unbelievable

We can look at a house on the other side of the world,

We can make music come out of speakers with no wires attached,

We can fly to the moon, see beyond Pluto,

We can find dust from the big bang still flying in space,

We can take your heart out and give you a new one,

But, we can’t stop men killing the women they love.

Respect

Respect,

It has become such a weasel word

Giving people something they think they deserve

Some sort of automatic right

To be treated in a certain way.

But, if you have to demand it,

It just means you are probably not

the kind of person who deserves it.

With respect,

I'm not at all sure

You know what it means.

Over Population

Paying rich women to have babies –

When over population is going to destroy us,

12 billion is the next unsustainable milestone

When half the world is starving already,

Or dying from lack of water

And millions of people are displaced

And we don’t welcome them, to our disgrace.

– Is everything that is wrong

With the world today

8.38am

If you don't put the toilet rolls in the toilet roll dispenser at work around the right way, the toilet roll dispenser won't work.

And if you don't break that stuck down end of the toilet roll, the toilet roll dispenser won't work.

The person who puts the toilet rolls in the toilet roll dispenser at work, does not put them in around the right way,

Nor does that person break the stuck down end before those toilet rolls go in the toilet roll dispenser.

You'd think if it was your job to put the toilet rolls in the toilet roll dispenser you'd want them to be in the right way

So, the whole thing works properly, but that is not the case.

The person who puts the toilet rolls in the toilet roll dispenser at work does not care if the whole thing works properly.

You'd think if that was your job, you'd take pride in those toilet rolls always being around the right way,

Ensuring that the sealed end is always being broken, but no, they do not.

Do not be like the person who puts the toilet rolls in the toilet roll dispenser at my work.

Sometimes

Sometimes I worry

that I only write poems of ugliness,

there is no beauty in them,

just the worst of humankind

sadness,

and decline.

My stock in trade

what can I say?

The world is in decay.

Australia is Burning

Bush fires burning,

climate change yearning.

Hope in us all stalling,

the planet is falling

Politicians Fawning,

country people dawning.

The country is on fire,

Scott Morrison is a liar,

(And nobody wants to shake his hand)

The future looks dire,

we’re all being consigned to hell,

because of politician's promises

that will only benefit them in the end

Laugh

You have to laugh

To feel Life 

Martini?

The human race

is now a jet airliner

going into a death spiral,

while the passengers

are still wanting cocktails

from the cabin crew.

Small talk,

the thing humans do

when silence seems too intimidating.

One Way Street

We must respect all religions... and all their stupid gods.

We must respect all religions... and all their stupid gods.

We must respect all religions... and all their stupid gods.

In the same way they respect those who don't believe like them.

21st Century Self

Not happy...

Call...

Complain...

There must be someone to blame!

Openly Gay

Openly gay,

as though it needs to be clarified,

implying there is a preferred option,

like ‘it’ shouldn't be.

You know, it might scare the kids.

Like it might be the exception,

as though there was another choice.

An inferred trigger warning,

up front this could be a problem.

We better get it out in the open,

for all those who might be offended.

China

When the rest of the world is free

why shouldn’t you be

Chinese society?

Dictated to,

for old men’s political glory

why should you be used (so poorly)?

Peter Dutton

Biloela, or bust

Our humanity is dust.

Psychosomatic

Seek

And ye shall find

George Pell

Poor old George Pell

accused of fiddling with young boys,

welcome to hell.

Allow me to show you around.

What's that frock you're wearing,

you look like a clown.

That old book? You can put that down,

it didn't do you much good when you were up there.

We're much less judgemental down here, don't despair,

we're much more, let's say, laissez faire.

Alan Jones

Rotten old Alan foul mouth

got into a bit of a stoush

when he said wouldn't it be grouse

to backhand the NZ prime minister about

Then when people turned around

and said that would not be grand,

instead of shutting his vile hole

He doubled down claiming, "trolled!"

"I'm taken out of context," he screamed

but to all of us reasonable ones, it seemed

no misunderstanding was at all heard,

you said smack her one, don't be absurd.

Shove a sock into her gob,

was, it seemed, our prime minister's job.

Jacinta telling the truth about climate change,

got old Alan sneer face seriously deranged.

Now Vile Allan can't shut his trap,

on and on and on she yaps.

Scratching and clawing at anyone,

who dares to say the old bitch is done.