I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.
[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]
Mike Funnell
The love of field and campaigns,
Is running in your veins.
I know but cannot share it,
My chide is otherwise.
Where mindless machines,
Just overtake the bogan lives.
Leave stunted short-term jobs,
For those you never see.
Those never given alternatives,
Can only dream of being bold:
like thee.