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Political Poetry

Franz Farce

Your Majesty, your Majesty, Oh royal Queen of State, 
the peasants are revolting, your answer we await!
"Yes they are revolting ... just dismiss.  
They don't ask awkward questions... so remiss"
But maam, they are saying terrible things about you, 
horrible things we just don't want to be true...
"What things are these horrible allegations they claim? 
Have they not heard my international acclaim?"
That we didn't go early and we didn't go hard, 
and that our Ministry of Health should be feathered and tarred. 
How shall we answer, us minions don't know, 
how we should answer them honestly so...?
"Honesty is a term I have yet to define.  
Like "Kindness" and "Transparency", 
they will all fall in line. 
Expediency is what matters, and my will of the people,
 I'll say what the truth is, and advise all the sheeple.
You see, if I say what I want them to think, 
and repeat my stories without a blink,
 they will soon follow the lines I've prepared,
 and repeat them to others, their thinking ensnared. 
Because they really want me to be good and pure,
 they will give me "benefit of doubt" to be sure.
We will tell them all daily, We went early and hard, 
brain-wash them with kindness, 
my reputation un-marred"
You are so clever oh Queen, 
a master of spin like none ever has seen!
The BFD. Jacinda and Team NZ. Photoshopped image credit Luke

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