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Poetry: The Colours of Discontent
A thousand blossoms bloomed during the US President's spring-time colonial visit last month.
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Poetry
The Colours of Discontent
A thousand blossoms bloomed during the US President's spring-time colonial visit last month.
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With media coverage of the US President's address to the Australian Parliament hobbled by hefty secret service agents and even heftier spin doctors, we discovered that the only correspondent authorised to report on the event was the gardening show columnist for the Bennelong Gazette, David Peetz..
THE COLOURS OF PARLIAMENT
The colours shone so true
The red, the white, the blue
As the stars and stripes descended on the town
The bush was swamped by greens
Twas such a lovely scene
Though the speaker went quite black as this went down
Labor? t'was very mellow
No much red, a streak of yellow
As purple prose was proffered to the crown
But the colour most exposed
Was that of the PM's nose
A fabulously vivid shade of brown
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