Don't ever fall in love
By
James Bredin

What can we do to bring about a political right turn?
Away from injection sites and needle-exchange concern,
Away from judges who are soft on crime and believe this is not strange,
Where young offenders can't be named as though we're the ones deranged.

A complete Senate of disciplined appointees who are not free,
And where we can't see the empty parliamentary seats on TV,
Where proportional representation is a forbidden sin,
And those into first-past-the-post know how they will win.

The new religion of political correctness is in charge,
And we are compelled to believe their ideas by and large,
Where the governor general like senators is far from free,
Illusions on top of illusions and not allowed to agree.

Feb 15th, 2010
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