Scaredy Cats

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Anti-nuclear Australia, Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Nuclear Power, Nuclear-powered submarines, Nuclear-powered warships, poem, poetry

𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐬

Scared stiff is our normal condition.
We’re frightened of nuclear fission.
No atom we’ll split —
We’d rather eat shit!
We’ll take no realistic position.

— D.N. O’Brien

Powerful Couplets

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Australian poet, Australian power shambles, Coal seam gas, fracking, Fracking ban in Australia, Nuclear Power, poem, poetry, Power generation rent-seekers, Renewable energy scams, Rhyming couplets, Rooftop solar power, Solar power scams, Wind power scams

𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬

Those spinning blades on the horizon
Mean your power bills will be risin’.

We’re sitting on a tank of gas;
Who comes to power? — another ass.

Our coal would last a thousand years;
But brightly burn, irrational fears.

Rent-seekers drain the public purse;
But “Climate Change” is far far worse.

Go nuclear? No, that won’t fly;
The science, the ignorant deny.

Then should we drill coal-seam gas wells?
Of course we should, but solar sells.

Okay, but we need base-load power!
Oh dear, there’s one born every hour.

— D.N. O’Brien