Good for (Big) Business

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poetry, poem, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Australian poet, Big corporations

𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 (𝐁𝐢𝐠) 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬

Dissenters, the chosen are purging.
“Comply with directives!” they’re urging.
“Just do as you’re told;
We’ll shower you with gold!”
The stockmarket? No surprise — surging!

— D.N. O’Brien

Joe Blow

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Australian poet, Inauguration Day, Joe Biden, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet

𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐰

You’ve banished Donald to the flaming pit;
So take the throne that you have slyly earned.
Joe, you have shown that surely does the shit
Float to the top — the tide of truth you’ve turned.
Your gaze averted as the cities burned;
As BLM supporters took their loot.
You and your Democrats were unconcerned
When masked ANTIFA thugs put in the boot.
Who would have thought that a demented coot
Would lead the greatest country on the Earth?
But votes were harvested — low-hanging fruit,
And even rotten windfalls were of worth.
Though you’re a husk that time will blow away,
Wake up Joe! It’s Inauguration Day!

— D.N. O’Brien

Da

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Australian poet, Free Speech, Gulags, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

𝐃𝐚

Be careful what you say aloud.
Reactionaries not allowed.
Laugh the mob: “You’re insane!
You’ve gulags on the brain!”
The Russians don’t laugh quite as loud.

— D.N. O’Brien

Curve Balls-up

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Australian poet, Covid-19 lockdown in Australia, Flatten the curve, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬-𝐮𝐩

Do you recall “flatten the curve”?
It was gospel before the big swerve
To the extermination
Of Covid — our nation
Surrendered — the fools lost their nerve.

— D.N. O’Brien

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄! 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄! 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄!!

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Australian poet, Covid lockdown fines, Covid-19 lock-down, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄! 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄! 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄!!

The way to control is now clear:
Rebellion must cost them too dear.
We’ll take till they’re poor,
For one thing is sure —
It’s fines that these free-thinkers fear.

— D.N. O’Brien

(If only the Bolsheviks could have been fined into submission….)

May it be so

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Amen, Awoman, epigram, Hebrew words, poem, poetry, Rhyming couplets

𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨

“Amen” it is sexist — old hat.
And I say “Awoman” to that.

— D.N. O’Brien

Scarecrow

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Australian poet, Donald Trump, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Scarecrow, Strawman

𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰

He’s a bully, a racist, a boor!
A misogynist — lots and lots more!
Is he solid and real?
Of course not! Here’s the deal —
He’s an image we’ve built out of straw.

— D.N. O’Brien

Lockdown Larry

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Australian poet, Covid lockdowns, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Lockdown zealots, poem, poetry

𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲

Lockdown for a year and a day!
Or maybe two years — either way,
I am safe and secure;
I have solid tenure —
Sitting back and collecting my pay!

— D.N. O’Brien

Devious Demos

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Democratic Party, DNA, Election rigging 2020, poem, poetry

𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐬

Unfairly is just how they play.
They simply know no other way.
It’s how they are spawned —
(Okay, you’ve been warned)
It’s in Democrat DNA.

— D.N. O’Brien

TIME Lords

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Australian poet, poem, poetry, TIME Magazine cover

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒

TIME magazine has honoured sleepy Joe,
And too his multiple-box-ticking hoe.
Why would one doubt these giants of our TIME?
Between them they pulled off the perfect crime.

— D.N. O’Brien