I agree but suspect you argue a bit too much here, Bill.
The satiric touches work best, such as that final stanza...
Doug
On 2012-07-10, at 3:55 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Stop the b ___ s
>
> Shiny, black-skinned, glistening, wet,
> emerging from the ocean
> and coming this way.
>
> Killer whales? Predatory sharks?
> Nup. Desperate asylum seekers
> Tamils, Arabs, Africans.
>
> No wonder Tony Abbot penetrates.
> He's tapping into something primal.
> Dark-skinned savagers from the deep,
>
> Here to upset our applecart,
> compete for our jobs,
> come to consume us.
>
> There's not even that many of them.
> A couple of thousand or so at most
> risk the packed-in boating perils.
>
> If it's sheer numbers that worry,
> why isn't Tullamarine being sloganised?
> Stop the planes! From the air,
>
> Visa overstayers abound. But
> these bobbers-about in the sea,
> we can't have that, can we.
>
> A scuttled boatload of Kiwis or Swedes,
> South Africans or Swiss would stun.
> But blacks must be kept at bay.
>
>
> Bill Wootton
> 11.7.12
>
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