Plain Sailing

I never heard such mendacious crap as that which 

spilled loquaciously from a dribbling gap stated as 

spokesperson for this party’s election manifesto & 

engineered magnificently around a ‘safe’ seat in a 

Melbourne suburb that would sway results; er, am 

I hearing this correctly - as if it matters, th’ song & 

dance’s riddled with innuendo - perchance aimed 

at the 2% - or some such demographic fantasy of 

Uncommitted voters identified as that crucial gain 

necessary to bring home the bacon; maybe I best 

change channels - back to where electioneering’s 

embedded in statutory bricks tossed once a week 

during an uneasy lead-up to the Poll which is still, 

for heaven’s sake, all of a noisy fortnight away 

But it won’t solve anything; two months of this pre-

election farce’s aimed to justify all this noisey-arse 

reminding voters of how ‘critical’ these freebooting 

politicians are: ok for sure - but I can’t see why we 

actually ever need to be reminded as once they’re 

guaranteed their remuneration - its plain sailing 

© 16 June 2016, I. D. Carswell