Almanac Poetry: Gough
He was a tall man
he was a very tall man
at our lemonade stand
I say, he was a politico rock star
as big as ACDC
the other Bee Gee
the PM Eee Gee
Edward Gough said
I was ambushed
let’s make a STAND
at the ballot box.
free health care
free university
no discrimination
equal opportunity
money for art
We could have voted Gough back
after he got the sack
but why do that
when we can have a free whack
Edward Gee, The Big Teddy, Juni Morosi
Jim Cairns doing the hokey pokey
Khemlani, The Panda Bear Affair…
We all drunk yeah
the cordial from the goodbye Gough trough
then we wandered off
we can’t give ourselves all that: free health care
free university, no discrimination, equal opportunity
money for art, people don’t deserve that
We could have voted Gough back
after he got the sack
but why do that
when we can have a free whack
Now we’ve got university slavery
run by the people who got it all for free
well may they say
he was the big fish
the one that got away
He was a tall man
he was a very tall man
at our lemonade stand
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About Michael Pardy
I wrote about the connection between the dismissal and resentment over the outcome of the Vietnam war and was personally attacked by a couple of parade ground heroes. That’s how things go.
But consider, the true revenge for 1975 came this very year when an ex government whose only claim to fame was Robodebt was reduced to it’s worst numbers since World War 2. As Shakespeare said:
“The whirligig of time brings in his revenges”
EG was a big man
With a very tall wife
Some men would say
His trouble and strife
But after the troubles
They shared a great life
The PM Eee Gee vey good, Michael for the reasons you proffer in your lively poem. The current mob unwilling to spend its political capital on anything as wide ranging and difference making.
whoops, very