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Post plebs fund the empire's bill,
Times elites, they ghost the bill,
Journal’s clique prints their own bill.
Post folk pay their taxes, tick,
Times' folk view taxes as trick,
Journal's pride deems taxes sick.
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Good morning.
Treachery's Etiquette
A frontal thrust is crude,
The blade's true work is viewed
From where the gaze eschews.
No thrust succeeds without
The feigned and trusted scout,
Whose loyalty's abuse.
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Lovely. Fascinating.
Grand Design
His scheme, grand design, we're told,
Is bungling dressed as wit bold,
Malice in its finest mould.
His plan, with bungled aims, staged,
With gleeful sabotage, waged,
All under progress' flag, raged.
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Board Rules
Victors dictate the way,
And change it as they play,
Throughout each passing day.
Flags show a shared design,
Where fleeting pacts align,
A fragile, shifting line.
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Deferred Dawns
Through diplomatic reserve,
The coming age is detained.
By boundaries drawn in ink.
That patient guest, the morrow,
Awaits the peace treaty's nod.
While innovation marks time.
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Greetings Kiwi.
Planned Bother
The planned spot of bother,
We deemed it most prudent
To strike ere the thunder.
A whiff of aggression?
Returning the compliment,
We dispatched rather a lot.
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Thank you.
Complicit Spin
They practice the unsaid art,
And turn lack to malpractice,
A risky, routine, revered part.
Tolerated like bad breath,
Unacknowledged, always near,
And so we bear it to death.
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Disclaimer
These figures of the screen,
With troubles that are keen,
Yet purely make-believe.
Our own existence shows,
Less reckless than its woes,
We scrutinised the files.
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Legal Fiction
Counsel swears no fact's here,
But conscience holds it dear,
This script's a false veneer.
Legally it's fiction,
Emotions speak to none,
While fact and fancy run.
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Fiction
These fictions are but feigned,
By you they are retained,
In your thoughts, they're ingrained.
These persons are not real,
Though their phrases we steal,
When our own lives congeal.
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The Menu
When asked of liberty,
We scan the options list,
And choose from what exists.
Our liberties retired,
Through sheer disinterest,
And chose to take their rest.
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Offbeat
His steps are timed with care,
But to a foreign air,
The orchestra proceeds.
His soles decline the beat,
His spirit scorns defeat,
Whilst blunders strew his path.
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Woke
You rise without a sound,
And set about to mend
The day that will descend.
No audience observes
This solitary rite
That mends with inner sight.
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Still Mind
The still mind keeps its steel,
The blaze it learnt to hide
Has left a mark inside.
The voice kept low prevails,
No quarrel to contest;
It holds an uneasy rest.
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Integrity
Integrity's poll returns
with winners fully counted
and wins by all that it earns.
Virtue's vote retains its flair
and never is discounted,
its style is beyond compare.
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Social Crimes
Self-disclosure now a crime,
Offending social sublime,
For lacking decorum's chime.
Candour's spill is mopped with care,
Lest dangerous thoughts appear,
Censors who will not forbear.
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Bogus Claims
The truth is not the aim,
But boldness wins acclaim,
And posture wins the fame.
A rumour first appears,
With strong conviction steers,
Indignation now cheers.
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I was surprised that it had a long history before it became a mainstay in political commentary. I first came across anecdata in the 1990s. The earliest known use appeared in a 1946 issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Anecdata Preferred
Why let data vex the show?
When a polished tale will do,
Spare the mess of what is true.
The ‘anecdata’ approach,
Swifter, louder, with less cost,
To persuade the voting host.
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Two-eyed Sleight
That hapless, two-eyed soul
Perceives a sharper view,
And thus his fate is clear.
The two-eyed man perceives
The volume of each snub,
And doubly, deeply grieves.
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Public Coffers
In corridors of state,
A finance, pure, is fed
By public coffers' bread.
They stand with slot for thought,
Where once an ideal fought,
Now only coin is bought.
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Work to Live
Labour lifts us from the ground,
Whilst machines are ever bound,
We seek moments more profound.
We clock out for sunsets' hue,
Robots clock for eons through,
Never knowing skies of blue.
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Custodianship
Those who govern stoke the flame,
Piety assumes the claim,
Heaven smoulders, bears the blame.
Ministers oil the descent,
Piety insists we’re sent,
Paradise was never lent.
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Manual Override
This lunacy runs its course
With no external force;
One must with hand correct.
This madness comes pre-wired,
Its circuits are hard-wired;
One must rewire the set.
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Dawn’s Overture
This land where dawn is heard
By those who shun the herd,
Its sly revenge conferred.
The morning's call is clear,
Dispels the inward sneer,
And stills the petty jeer.
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Statecraft Manual
The coverup’s duct tape,
It mends the civic shape,
Until the borders gape.
Statecraft’s disinfectant,
For lies of large extent,
Requires a grand event.
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