An ode to our leaders and their shenanigans. I penned this during the Premier “Joh for PM” campaign in Queensland, Australia. I experimented with an aaaa, aaaa, aaaa, aaaa rhyme scheme.

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Politics is sometimes jubilation

For there is a thing called indexation

That raises wages to higher remuneration

But then again, it’s still all taken by taxation

Then there’s a group called arbitration

That considers and decides the augmentation

And with these kind of people screwing the nation

Perhaps one will never achieve satiation?

The Premier thinks he has the connotation

Of the nation’s needs and deprivation

I think this, (seeing his private aviation)

More thrift, and there’d be no starvation

And they say we have Democratisation

And they go on saying, to bring the elation

But as long as I still live in degradation     

Politic-ation is just no relation to my situation.

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  • joystick7 on Nov 20, 2008

    Nice way of putting it.

  • Ruby Hawk on Nov 20, 2008

    You succeeded. Well put. Take care,Ruby

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