Don'T Get Me Started

DON’T GET ME STARTED 1. About taxes, we have to pay them so why bother Wasting breath complaining? And they’re spent on Useful stuff like nuclear weapons and world-tours for The Prime Minister and keeping teenage shoplifting kids In jail (where they belong) and allowing major embezzlers Or inside-traders to be under light-supervision on open prison-farms. 2. About Richard Nixon, a president who got caught Doing what practically every president does, And did trivial things like achieving rapprochement with China, Ending the war in Vietnam, and signing nuke treaties With the USSR. What a waste of time. 3. About bees, because why should I put up with stings and all their buzzing Just for honey, when I don’t even like honey or beeswax? And don’t tell me about the hexagonal architecture of honeycombs. Buckminster Fuller did it better without stinging or buzzing anyone. 4. About sushi, which is a bit too fishy for me. I hate fish, With those big staring eyes in the shop, or floating pathetically Around In the shrimp-pan gazing accusingly at me. 5. About Australians, wanting applause for kangaroos, wallabies or Melbourne. How about a round of applause for Canada for having beavers, or the RCMP? 6. About rap “music” which really should be called crap music 7. About dogs .................................................. ( Don't get excited, politically, sexually or architecturally. No nationalistic or animal rights complaints, please. It's only a funny poem.)