Sidney Beck Poet Free verse

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


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( Don't get excited, politically, sexually or architecturally.  No nationalistic or animal rights complaints, please.   It's only a funny poem.)

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