Category Archives: satire poem poetry

BULLET POINT

from the perspective
of the ordinary
the everyday
every flawed human
beaten down
   shorn of
courage

everybody
is in on it,
Hell, it’s
the way of the
world
drop
   in the ocean

but from
the perspective of
Truth

that stuff
in the Bible
that thing
in Plato

it looks
a bit
different

here every
lying journalist
should be
shot
or hanged

along with
every lying
politician

made to
pay back for
the death and
misery
their lies create

the cost of the rope
the price of the bullet

I myself am prepared to negotiate

CHORAL

preaching to the choir,
still you had
better not
stray, stick
to the script

for as made
exactly clear
during your last
fulmination

they came armed as asked:
packing many bibles,
      two
    rifles for each

THERE BE

there be satirists in the land

rare, ’tis true,
but nore plentiful than dragons

and Oh so easy
to avoid them!

not an issue
to learn to steer clear
of their usual habitats

can dodge
       them readily

neither lithe, nor elusive, like
Australian brown or
African black mamba

and nowhere near
as outright venomous

step over them freely
my brothers, my sisters

though they
        hiss and may strike

nothing to fear here at all