Meltdown #17: Social Winners
Two hundred and thirty days of dooming and glooming
But green shoots are sprouting and blossoms are blooming
As we look longingly outside
Let’s put our worry’s aside
Time to tune in our tellies where sport is booming
Bulldogs and Demons in an all-Melbourne Grand Final
The working-class doggies and their gentry rivals
Not since 1964
Fifty-seven years before
Has Melbourne Football Club won the premiership title
Dylan Alcott you’re such an awesome tennis star
You won Paris and Wimbledon then lifted the bar
Adding New York and Japan
To win a rare Grand Slam
Will you retire or is another door ajar?
And Sam Stosur re-won the US Open in doubles
A lifetime’s reward for all her struggles
She beat players half her age
Their idol when centre stage
Another inspiration in our lockdown troubles
Daniel Ricardo crossed first in the Italian Grand Prix
Two duelling drivers crashed before turn three
Max Verstappen madly sped
On top of Hamilton’s head
Ricardo celebrated with his trademark shoey
Quaid Cooper kicked over the winning Wallaby goal
His residency application was then fast rolled
The Wallabies were grinners
Not often rugby winners
Can the All Black world-in-union include green and gold?
And Melbourne Storm excels in the other rugby code
The game that’s played in a five-phase mode
Craig Bellamy the coach
Success beyond reproach
Leadership we wished our politicians showed
For all winners there were losers whose intentions were dashed
Like Djokovic when he and his rackets were smashed
Geelong and Port Adelaide
Christian Porter’s blind legal aid
And the French submarine contract, nuked and trashed
And when Greg shunned Pfizer, we were shunted from the hunt
All bets on Astra Zeneca was a reckless punt
Now we’re scrounging for donors
Other countries’ left overs
When we could have won plenty of Pfizer up front
Brace for cases to soar in the coming weeks
While the hospital system wobbles and creaks
There are a million reasons
To get a vaccine this season
Our safety, our loved ones, planned weekend retreats
Vaccination will make sure we avoid serious sickness
A passport to play and get back to business
Let the sunshine blind us
With our shadows behind us
Don’t let Delta be the grinch that stole our Christmas
New South Wales reaches eighty percent first doses
Some say it’s because they got more vaccine quotas
And Gladys stops her presser
She couldn’t take the pressure
It feels like a privilege to just smell the roses
Announcements of workplace vaccination schemes
And approval for vaccines now given to teens
Rapid antigen tests
Might give noses a rest
From that dreaded- long-nasal-swab testing regime
We’re all dreaming of the day when we can fly away
To visit family or friends or take a holiday
Life as we once knew it
Before COVID blew it
Even see the serenity up Bonnie Doon way
We wait for Sunday’s roadmap from this daily grind
An exit path to leave all this crap behind
Where vaccination’s rewarded
Hard-fought freedom’s awarded
Just like our sporting stars ….. a chance to win back lost time!
Kevin Holmes • 17th September 2021
