A POET’S PLEA: WE NEED TO KNOW WHO SOLD THE FARM

RISE AND FALLS

Standing
firm on guard for thee,
we
coalesce to make our plea,
and
while the horse has left the barn,
we
need to know who sold the farm;
An
enterprise whose smell pervades,
the
waters and its everglades;
whose
genesis just boggles minds,
while
mares will watch their bare behinds;

Where
was sense when pique prevailed,
impending
storms but off she sailed;
did
due diligence lose its way,
which
brought us to this fatefull day?
Enquire,
ye learned minds, of why,
the
Muskrat ever got its bye;
of
what its tail might yet reveal,
if
all else fails, it’s sex appeal.
Bob LeMessurier
St. John’s

April
9, 2018

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11 COMMENTS

  1. Tom Osborne… just another in lamentably long line of incompetent NL politicians, the lot of which can best be described as a bunch of hopelessly naive con artists living in a technicolor dreamworld.

    He now appears to believe that by avoiding mention of the excessive provincial debt resulting from a hideously bloated government's horrendous spending problem… will serve to sucker the voters and soften them up for the coming election.

    At least from Cathy Bennett the public got straight talk, as grim as as it was… rather than the asinine blatherings of a partisan fool.

    This Osborne individual is lost… unfit to hold the finance portfolio.

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/debt-gushue-column-1.4618698