If you're like most adults, you got it wrong. Our adult minds are programmed to read information. Our senses tend to take the back seat when competing with our learned thought processes.
Keep that in mind as you read a poem I've written to mark events in parliament. It might take a minute to work out the rhythm, but I'm fairly sure there is one. (Don't worry, I haven't quit my day job.)
THE BITCH THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN . . .
Conditional sentences for kid porn on the net,
new sponsorship charges, won’t deal with that yet.
North Korea, Darfur, who really cares?
Belinda’s been wronged, what else compares?
canadiannaThe matter’s decided, but we won’t let it be
not with that mean-talking man roaming free.
Mr. Speaker must listen, then listen again
until those terrible words are etched in his brain.
"You already have her," the man might have remarked
And we Liberals just know he meant that she barked.
We remember his gesture to her empty chair
and the cruel implication that a doggie sits there.
The bad man denies ever saying those words
but Liberal MPs know what they heard.
To the trivial world, we’ll remain blind
while we shoulder this burden for all female-kind.
"He’s a liar, a sexist, a dishonourable lout!
We know what we know, we heard that man shout!
Ruin any career! Blacken anyone’s name!
It’s in defence of all women – not political gain.
You'll listen, and listen and listen some more.
The words at the bottom will help you be sure.
If the sound was inscrutable the first time -- well then,
just be sure that you play it -- again, and again.
Keep reading the captions right there on your screen;
reread it and listen, you'll know what we mean.
Listen while reading – those same words you will hear
Don't worry, your eyes won't play tricks on your ear.
Accused of a gesture and a meaning implied
and if that's not enough, we'll prove that he lied.
We’ve printed the words, so you’ll hear that it’s true
If you just keep on reading it, you’ll hear it too.
8 comments:
woohoo, that is excellent!
I think you have a budding career!
Re the topic of your delightful poem - how right you are - this is how politics is done in the western world - keep screaming it until the unwashed masses believe they heard it too and it becomes fact. If you can get the MSM to keep screaming it as well - bonus,
LOVE it!
Ex-cel-lent!
Brilliant! If they tie up the Speaker and keep playing the tape over & over with the subtitles, I'm sure he'll hear it eventually.
Anna Anna, you have a way with words
But unless I am mistaken I think that I have heard
That Belinda as a canine is not alone
Because all of the Liberals are like dogs on a bone
Ironically, their leadership convention has been stalling and is quite boring and this gives them all something to talk about. Could the house use more decorum? Yes. But I think they are just distracting the non political from the fact that they are holding up the Accountability Act in the Upper House.
I do sincerely hope you keep penning there, ... er, ... ah, ... pieces of literature.
The more of this material there is out there, the easier it will be for voters to assess the Conservative Party.
Hee-hee-hee :-) Great job.
Incidentally, one "progressive" has just advised me on the subject of the Sudanese Government that "We must respect their right to self-determination, even at the peril of genocide." (source)
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