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Love Hertz

Remember all those tea ads with the chimps on?
We’ll prostitute the Prague of Gustav Mahler
and desecrate the divas of La Scala.
Would Bart betray begettor Homer Simpson
(he’s not so much a whoreson as a pimp-son)
to get himself a Chevrolet Impala?
You bet he would.  This is the Grab-It Gala.
The cripple pawns the plaster that he limps on.

In Pasadena, Pimlico and Perth,
the only thing we´ll go without is girth.
Where JP Morgan’s played by Colin Firth,
we airbrush self-awareness, muffle mirth,
and drown in plenty, blink at moral dearth.
We're always prizing price-tag, never worth.

Copyright © Michael Coy | Year Posted 2017

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Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart Date: 3/12/2017 9:41:00 AM Excellent write! Login to Reply Michael Coy Date: 3/12/2017 10:16:00 AM Maureen, I'm so grateful!

Darren White Date: 3/12/2017 8:40:00 AM Hertz will love you for your free advertisement lol. I bet you wanted a decent riddle for me here? Well, you succeeded 0.o I have been looking up a lot here, about the chimps and the tea, Colin Firth (whom I think is adorable ;p) So my question to you is: is this about rental cars all over the world, or are you now withdrawing my apprenticeship because you're disappointed in me? Love the monorhyme in the second part, enclosed rhyme in the first. Waltzes like all your poems! Login to Reply Darren White Date: 3/12/2017 9:17:00 AM Ahhhh, that Hertz thing I didn't get, no, thanks, now I can read into it :) Those, apes, yeah I found that. So interesting part of UK history. Michael Coy Date: 3/12/2017 9:07:00 AM LOL The apprenticeship is stronger than ever (though I'm not sure who is learning from whom). Hertz stands as a symbol of global capitalism. In the UK in the 1970s a tea company launched an ad campaign, using apes as people.