Balancing

Thirty feet up a tree picking avocados, yeah, 

sounds crazy, but the season’s nearly over & 

you’ve gotta chase the buggers out of reach, 

a case of properly completing a job and then 

the phone rings; some geek wanting to know 

what I think about Campbell Newman’s most 

recent diatribe against the Judiciary. Geeze 

mate I say, who gives a toss 

Here I am balancing on a ladder with a five 

metre picking pole and you want to discuss 

Gollum’s crapulous invective about Judges 

on the revue panel. Yeah he says, its kinda 

germane you and Cammo share something 

so dangerous in very much the same way 

Hey, I cringe, enough of the insults, you’re 

not gonna get me to agree with you there’s 

similarities between me ‘n Gollum - he’s a 

balding ego-tripper tooled by big business 

while I’m not even slightly vexed Judges 

don’t agree with him and his mercenaries 

He listens to his ego’s prognostications on 

what’s fact while th’ rest’s biassed opinion, 

when th’ big cash cows moo a bit outback 

Cammo wont give crap what people think; 

he’s well-laid by by his paid agenda’s own 

propriety brand of familial hypocrisy 

© 24 October 2013, I. D. Carswell