The Earworm…..

Doggerel Dave


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Oh it’s Politics on a Breakfast Show -

Sometimes good company with toast and tea:

A talkback comment on the radio

Has colonised my head and won’t leave me.

 

I have this earworm when a Pollie speaks;

Funny, a distraction but tiresome too,

Though a pearl among political critiques.

It’s stuck there, and there’s nothing I can do:

 

“This arvo I’m going to set my hair on fire and put it out with a hammer”

 

I’m thankful other topics are the show,

But the image remains at any rate:

Prevaricating politics, just go -

Please find a better way, or it’s too late.

 

*For them as has no culture, try the Aussie version:

  • Pollie = Politician, obviously;
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  • arvo = afternoon.
  • Author: Doggerel Dave (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: November 21st, 2021 20:14
  • Comment from author about the poem: I’m barely through my toast and still have half my large mug of tea when I’ve had enough, switch to a digital 24 hour jazz station…….
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  • Fay Slimm.

    Gud day and thanks for tacklin' this subject Dave - - am with you all the way - Give me jazz over pollies any day and I have always felt the same - -- am about to tackle my toast-an-tea brecka now while hopin' your own day's been great.

    • Doggerel Dave


      G'day Fay - nice ring don't you think? I get a case of the screaming hab-dabs now when I hear almost any politician speak, and this bloke expressed it so perfectly. Glad my little piece said something to you.


    • Neville



      I know precisely what you mean Old Bean ...................................... love the fire & hammer bit very muchly indeed .. my word it made me smile wide ...................... N

      • Doggerel Dave

        Thanks Nev - don't know who the bloke was - he came, listened, said his piece and disappeared.

        Seriously considering renaming this 'The Poem of the Unknown Listener'

      • Jay-Lee Jane

        "Please find a better way, or it’s too late." Truth within the melody of your poetry.

        • Doggerel Dave

          Thanks for that - the trouble is I feel it may well be too late anyway. On the one hand politicians seemingly are regarded with cynicism and have lost much of their authority (in so-called democratic countries anyway), but the result appears to be increasing anarchy. A younger more committed lot better step up smartly, otherwise....

        • dusk arising

          Cor Blimey cobbah. I agree with your sentiments. Jazz is a worthy alternative to most radio babble.

          • Doggerel Dave

            Thanks dusk - I have fairly catholic tastes when it comes to jazz and the station does it for me.... other than that there is always silence , which I have here for the first time in my life - good reason to stay, and this I've done for the past eighteen years......

          • Thad Wilk

            Yup nothing you
            can do. 🤐
            Give me Jazz 🎵🎶
            over politician's and
            a large mug of tea too!☕😁
            Best regards ✌️ Thad

            • Doggerel Dave

              Yeh - you got it... both calms the nerves but keeps me alert too.

              Thanks for the call, Thad.



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