Pockets Full Of Piss And Wind

You heard the way Tim Flannery told it,
he ‘almost’ turned down his Australian of
the Year award because Johnny Howard
would not sign the Kyoto Protocol.

Let me repeat, he ‘almost’ gave away
what he needs to be an effective voice,
cancelled his tenure of choice, and faded
away into an innocuous invisibility.

Tim Flannery... couldn’t be the same man
we look to for sage advice! But he is right.
Johnny states with steely-eyed intensity,
‘Australia needs a strong economy, not a

bunch of nannies pushing greenhouse
gas emission goals. We’d be broke within
a week if we let those pissweak freaks
run this country round the bend’.

Depends which bend. Timmy stole the
moral ground from erstwhile Honest
John (- still with the blinkers on), been
forthright, erudite and told the truth.

But what’s the use, who’ll you best believe?
John will fill your pockets full of piss and wind
while you breathe the same foul air still reeking
of emissions, claiming it’s good for the economy.
© 25 April 2007, I.D. Carswell