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Harry the Louse Laments - Tredipation

18/4/2015

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Harry the Louse
Harry and friends take a pleasure flight

Niko the pilot says it will be all right

Yet Harry once airborne is full of fear

“Niko, my friend, get me out of here”

*** 

“I want to go home I can take it no more!”

Before they know it he opens the door

Out of the cabin, he clings on the plane

“Get me down Niko, I’ll fly never again!”

 ***

Caro leans out and speaks sternly to Harry

“Are you the brave man I wanted to marry?

You’re behaving now like a big-girl’s blouse

What are you really? A mouse or a Louse?”

Click to meet Harry and read more about him on his own page within the site
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Harry the Louse Laments - Disruption

8/3/2015

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poetic prologue to Harry the Louse
My book Harry the Louse goes to the dogs

While once more I focus on writing blogs

So two birds I’ll kill with one large rock

This blogging business is poppycock

***

The first in my sights, my damned editor

Whatever I write she demands far more

The next perhaps Harry’s golden goose

Shall I rewrite her as a grabbing moose?

***

Harry thought she was just right for him

Elegant, sexy, well-heeled and slim

It turns out that she’s no bimbo blonde

The type of woman of which he’s fond

***

She’s with poor Harry when he’s robbed

She felt his anguish while he sobbed,

‘The thieving swine’s taken all my cash

But to lend to me would just be rash’

***

He sits there hurt with blooded nose

His building plans beset by woes

‘I will not let you invest your money

In Cretan dreams of milk and honey’

***

Could his refusal be calculation

To hide his plan’s examination

Does he believe that by saying no

More likely to him her cash will flow?

Click to meet Harry and read more about him on his own page within the site
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Harry the Louse Laments - Eruption

4/3/2015

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poetic prologue to Harry the Louse
My webpage is lacking something, I have to toil yet more

My editor wants more verses, she says only poems soar.

‘My novel, it will suffer when mere days would see it done!’

‘Your lousy story’s not wanted; folk find poetry more fun.’

***

Harry the Louse was sidelined, I yielded to her request

I sadly pulled the plug on him when almost at his best

Convincingly he’d whispered, sweet words to a dishy blonde

She took him to her hotel room to stroke his magic wand

***

It excited her the thing she saw, she believed t’would do the trick

She hoped he would lead gently in, not wave his wand too quick

The lights were dim upon the scene, her cunning barely showing

As Harry moved towards her charms, his magic wand a-glowing

***

The stage was set most carefully, she squirmed with expectation

She took his wand with outstretched hand, an act of supplication

But in urgency she pulled too hard, caused the wand to blow a fuse

And brought a damp squib ending that neither one would choose

***

I have given Harry a firm promise, I’ll just focus on my book

Her demands for rhyming verse put him firmly on the hook

Harry won’t help with poetry or before a woman grovel

He only wants to be a star in a first class proper novel

Meet Harry and read more about him on his own page within the site
Take me to Harry's page
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The Gravy Train Hits The Buffers

23/2/2015

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greek gravy train
The Greek gravy train hits the buff€rs

Europe looks away as a nation suffers

‘Don’t ask us for help with your plight

You owe us big time, it’s ours by right

So clear off back to crumbling Greece

Toil day and night and never cease

Things for you will get no better

Until no longer are you a debtor’

€€€

What next for Tsipras and Varoufakis

Heading for home to sink some rakis?

Short shrift they had from Europe’s elite

So it’s back to Athens to take some heat

What the Greek people have now is plain

Tsipras is Samaras with a different name

Some say he fooled his voters and lied

But kinder folk say his hands were tied.

€€€ 

Each year the Greeks celebrate ‘Ochi’ day

When Mussolini learned there was no way

He could trample across Hellenic lands

With his fascist troops and cut-throat bands

His march on Greece brought bloody nose

He called friend Adolf to fight his foes

During four long years jackboots dictated

By most of Greece his men were hated

€€€

Yet now left-wing Syriza bends its knee

To the new-found strength of Germany

The tragedy goes way beyond the shores

Of Greek democracy, ideals and laws

This new Europe in which we’re all thrust

Is the very antithesis of democracy’s trust

A principle established in ancient Greece

To serve the people and keep the peace

€€€

The EU was set-up to stop Europe’s wars

Some say it now settles far earlier scores

To trample roughshod over a nation’s right

To protect its people and stand and fight

Should Syriza fly the white flag of defeat

And grovel once more at the tyrant’s feet?

Better a brand new F’Ochi-off day

Than let moneyed tyrants have their say

 €€€

The people didn’t vote to bear this cross

Of a dictating Europe that thinks it’s boss

The German euro will bring nothing but pain

So throw it out  – raise the drachma again!

Take courage Tsipras, put democracy first

Or end up a failure and be forever cursed

Greece has no choice the euro to leave

Gather your strength and give it the heave

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Harry The Louse Laments - Interruption

11/2/2015

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I’m told my webpage it is lagging, so I have to work some more

‘You must write another poem, that’s what they’re waiting for.’

‘But my novel’s nearly finished, twelve days should see it done!’

‘They don’t want your heavy novels, a poem’s much more fun.’

*** 

Harry the Louse is once more sidelined, my editor’s in command

This constant switching Harry on and off, is getting out of hand

Successfully he’d whispered, sweet words to a well-heeled blonde

They’d headed to her hotel room to try out his magic wand

*** 

She was excited by the promise made, she looked forward to his trick

She hoped he would prepare his ground, not wave his wand too quick

She set the stage with coloured lights, her cunning just revealing

A grand showing he would make, of his magic wand’s concealing

*** 

The stage was set, as were the props, she pulsed with anticipation 

Harry prepared to thrust his wand and cause a great sensation

His mobile rang demandingly, perhaps with something tragic

His face went white, his poor wand fell and Harry lost his magic 

*** 

He has made me swear a promise, I must learn to wait a tick

And ignore all demands for poetry, while I write a Harry trick

Which is the more important asked our persuasive lady killer

Blog-standard rambling verse or a potential first-class thriller? 
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Gravy Train Will Run Again

30/1/2015

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gravy train political poetry about the EU

The Greeks know 'twill be a mess
There is no need to second guess
Today they are feeling full of hope
But when they see he cannot cope
And to the Troika he bows his head
All hope they had will then be dead

He will hold out that begging bowl
For German money to fill the hole
Berlin's finest will moan and groan
Yet find the cash for another loan
The Greeks will never lose their debt
The hopes they had will not be met

There is one chance to yet be free
No longer broken on bended knee
The accursed Euro, in fact's the same
As the Deutschmark with another name
The Greeks will better days not see
Until they ditch this damned currency

Tis a cruel hope to expect real gains
Shackled by Krupp & Co steel chains
No more u-boats or mighty tanks
No more in hock to foreign banks
With the Drachma back in circulation
A chance to construct a better nation

However, it is hard to break this link

To others' rule when you cannot think
Put a man in power, remove his brain
Puff him with pride, he'll not think again
A broken man, he now cries and garbles
'I blame Lord Elgin, he stole our Marbles'
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Gravy Train Crashes-Many Politicians Injured!

30/1/2015

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train crash
Greece lightning!
Voter heartening
Opinions widening
Merkel maddening
Farage toughening
Cameron campaigning
Chances heightening
Britain-out voting
Treaties reopening
EU-rule weakening
Pruning-knife sharpening
Politician lightening
Banker frightening
Big-business unburdening
Freedom strengthening
Democracy recovering
People self-governing!
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Gravy Train Stalls-Politicians Take Flight... Instead

31/12/2014

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gravy train political poetry about the EU
The Greek gravy train has a head of steam
Now crewed by the Syriza winning team
They planned their route, it’s all set down
Flags and bunting decorate every town
Their plan is simple, although brand new
Is it perhaps something we all should do?

Free transportation for the frail and old

Their daring plan is foolproof yet so bold
Thousands of jobs created from thin air
Other countries leaders just don’t care
If they did, would they not do the same?
They would magic jobs and play the game

Jobs for the boys and for our women too
You’ll be paid for sleeping and on the loo
While our new plans fill Europe with rage
We will pay you at least, a minimum wage
From where will all this fine money come
To take the Greek population off its bum?

The government will get much-needed cash

By taxing the rich and squeezing their stash
Conglomerates too, will pay a bigger share
Businesses everywhere will pay, that’s fair
Poor brave Syriza, they just cannot know
When you tax the rich they usually up and go

Businesses across the land will simply relocate
Corporation tax revenues fall and costs escalate
Soon the government will run out of steam
A year, perhaps two, then a shattered dream
Out will come once more the begging bowl
Please Deutschland dig us from this awful hole

We kept faith with the euro as you dictated

Our economy stands battered and decimated
Achtung! Do not plant these seeds here sown
Greece must blow the whistle on the Eurozone
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