1. Morrison’s Yacht 

 

Those Neo Nazis have the right to tilt the

Coalition’s boat, hard to starboard, even more!

Don’t throw them out: they really might help recharge

Such weary, bleary blather with some youthful, useful, fascist chatter!

 

So don’t throw those new young Nats overboard now, we

Are supposed to be protecting endangered sharks: they won’t

Eat anything – for weeks – after tasting such rotten politics!

Tool late! Poor sharks! The coalition’s yacht’s capsized. 

 

2. Rats In The Water 

 

He sent his old mate Mal off for to a World’s Oceans

Jumper suit junket. It wasn’t just another job for the boys

Like all of the other “smile-when-you-like-this-one-the-least”

Tropical talkfests: this little gravy trip had some real purpose:

 

Old Morrie was hoping that his best mate Mal would find someone

At the oceans conference who might know how to re-right an old upturned

Vessel – bur then old Mal betrayed the track – mentioning Israel Embassies.

Uh Oh! Now the two big, kingship rodents in the water, aren’t on speaking terms, at all! 

 

3. Coalition Cavitation (Sunken Treasure) 

 

The old crate sank in 019: she had too many leaking seams with

Sprung and rusted plates, and had been torpedoed by the Nats, well

Below the water line. We think that the tin fish may have been quietly

Supplied by the big bloke making all loud noises on our Aussie built submarines.

 

It was just a bit of most unfortunate steamed propeller-bubble burst

Of coalition cavitation, which gave their last charted, chartered plot away

To the sneaky, silent, tracking bastards. Boom! The young Nazi Nats were

Being shot from the forward tubes, even as the warhead hit. She’s a dive wreck, now.

 

Paul Healy is a poet, writer, and “socialisti” political commentator who says that his main challenge – in life – is pushing enough of the coming prose back, to leave sufficient room for his muse.