The Batty ABC

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ABC, ABC left bias, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian poet, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗕𝗖

The vampire that we call the ABC,
It sucks its life-blood from the public purse.
Its far-left propaganda isn’t free;
It costs a billion, and what is far worse,
It isn’t just the left that fund this curse,
For all of us give to this thirsty bat.
This Dracula in poor disguise we nurse,
And so the ABC grows sleek and fat,
And like a smug and condescending brat
It thinks it is untouchable, secure,
As all about it spreads its stinking scat —
Blights all it touches with its foul manure.
The ABC once was a source of light,
But now it’s just a pesky parasite.

— D.N. O’Brien