Poemope

I read your paper every week
and to be quite frank
I find it reeks
of politics and communists
I know you talk of people repressed
and I've been one
but to this end you seem obsessed
in fact with nothing to laugh at
I get depressed
If I were you
this is what I'd do
I'd throw the politicis in the air
and laugh at life
in all its strife
and that should make life easier to bear
In the gap that's left
put articles on everyday life
like how to be a good flat wife
or how to prime your bomb
things for every Dick and Tom
or things on drinking tests
without comment on drinking in NZ society
as if you don't drink in all your piety
or perhaps some poetry by Keats
(that rhymes with feats)
the trouble is
you guys have too much brain
and tor me its quite a drain
to read your rave
with no jokes
on life and all its pokes

Paul Darroch