THE CHEAP SEAT CATASTROPHE

THE CHEAP SEAT CATASTROPHE

Cruise lines, bus lines, train lines AIRLINES

Move us round like canned sardines.

They sit us down in tiny seats

With bodies bound, cheek to cheek

To share the air tween all throughout,

That circulates and mixes croup.

THE BARD'S THOUGHTS ON COVID-19

THE REAPER HEWS

(The Pale Horse)

Scourges stalk the human race,

Unheralded, unseen,

The Reaper hews - no coup de grace,

Messy and obscene.

The virus grows and many dread,

Few ICU nor cure,

And stealthily, a cancer’s fed -

To final days ensure.

THE BARD ON AVARICE AND COD FISH

CODFISH

When Cabot crossed the raging Main,

Cod in commons sight were plain.

But avarice - human greed

Caught King Cod to paltry breed

And Fish for food was sought in vain.

They said the Cod are back again:

Pre-spawning! - (3PS) catch campaign!!

Over grounds that Codfish seed,

An echo of the inane deed

Caused Newfoundland to pain.

THE BARD ASKS: WHO SETS THE RULES?

PRESELECTION

Could it be a new direction,

Or in effect a preelection?

Would we see a change in graft -

Taxpayers’ still to get the shaft?

Who sets rules for rules to craft?   

Who preselects the preselectors?

Academics or Corp. directors?

Or legal minds for fees to fill?

Or politicians at municipal till?

Bureaucrats with time to kill?

Special interests to top the Hill.

Who’s for good of common Will?  

John Tuach

January 26, 2018

THE BARD ON THE "NO POINT PLAN"

DON’T BREATHE

(No Point Plan)

Empty schools, keep them open,

Ferry service, keep them hoping.

Muskrat Falls, no power aspire,

And can’t allow a full Inquire.

Smile and grin and don’t perspire.

THE LOOTERY CABAL?

THE LOOTERY CABAL? 

(Big Job Draw*)

Victims will need to hear and see the names appear -

Of racketeers - of those who planned to profiteer, 

Dreamt of public debt, and commandeered a future drear. 

Audacity to admire, and to condemn with tear.

THE BARD AND THE RISKS OF BUILDING ON CLAY

THE WISE MAN AND THE FOOLISH MAN*

The wise man built upon a rock, the foolish built on sand. 

The bible's lesson:  on sand, the structure will not stand.*

Clay, it's weaker than the sand, and, it's prone to collapse,  

And yet, at Muskrat Falls, clay planned as Churchill trap.**

A natural ridge with clay to impede the Churchill flow?

A natural dam with quick clay - part collapsed decades ago!

No mention in the bible of the man that built on clay:

Such building is foolhardy, maybe doesn't need to say.