! A Rant About 'Unacceptable'... Poem by Michael Shepherd

Today, and every day - someone booped!
Someone who's paid a lot, not to..

An apology, a resignation of their tarnished
position in our public life? Don't
make me laugh...

No - they grandstand, chest inflated
with their moral worthiness -
'This is absolutely unacceptable...'
implying, some minion... escaped my notice...
of course would never countenance...
...torocaca! That's exactly what
you just did - accepted it...

It's another variation of the now familiar
response to some organisation's failing -

don't admit it; just issue
(as you scrabble shamelessly through the scree
for the moral high ground, way beyond your reach...)
a mission statement - 'Our company upholds
the very highest standards of public life...'
blah blah... it didn't did it? ...

OK, having said that,
at the end of the day,
and other clichés that stick on our tongue
like an ice lolly that another has already licked...
whew....