Meltdown #5: Social Alliteration
Our mood is as dark as the encroaching shortest day
Our freedom is as feeble as the solstice ray
Much rancour and rage
Confined in our cage
Our last long winter weekend and we can’t go away.
We went to bed mid-week, grumpy and growling
Woke to winds, whistling and howling
An almighty storm
Had cast its scorn
Houses lost power and rivers were fouling
Feeling as flattened as the fallen trees
State strewn with destruction, branches and beams
Some stuck in their cars
More emotional scars
Evacuations, roadblocks from swollen streams
Morale is as low as our winter thermometer
Piling on pressure that’d break a barometer
Restrictions are easing
But our minds are freezing
Spinning around like a smashed speedometer
We’d imported the virus from Adelaide
Then sent it to Queensland with interest paid
A couple with infection
Did a lockdown defection
Spread it through NSW on their escapade
The Biloela Tamils that Government dare not mention
Two years in cruel Christmas Island detention
Now a shift in sentiment
A call for their settlement
Deporting this family is beyond comprehension
Scott’s gone to G7 for a dressing down
Where climate action’s the main game in town
He’s at the kids’ table
Until he is able
To cease being a closet climate clown
After introducing partners and elbow greetings
Biden didn’t want a one-on-one meeting
He asked Boris if he
Could make a meeting of three
To help him confront Scott’s climate cheating
A forum where the PM is a minnow, a minor
Scott calls for a global beat up on China
Intuitively inept
A staggering misstep
Where diplomacy needs to be somewhat finer
At Edgbaston, England they’d sold out tickets
To watch Kiwis beat the Poms at test match cricket
With a day to spare
This team showed flare
With capacity crowds in a COVID thicket
Yet some COVID critics are saying to stop the racket
You can’t spread the virus when asymptomatic
A medical tyranny
Just an evil conspiracy
For vaccine passports to control global traffic
Our Premier’s back to work at the end of the month
He’d fallen down stairs, some say he was thumped
His return’s on track
After breaking his back
Let’s hope he takes over with COVID bumped
Meanwhile masquerading back to bars and shopping shelves
Always keeping social distance to ourselves
These damn new variants
Some dismiss them as scariants
Surely the last lockdown our learned leader compels
Kevin Holmes • 13th June 2021
