Standpipe Politics with Smartie and Moron (3)

 

 

Man Smartie,

You’re very quiet today.

Man I can’t get a word out of you.

It is not like you

Never to have a view.

Like something happened, man.

Something like what, Moron?

Easy there, Smartie,

I am not trying to put you on the spot.

What is it you want, Moron?

I just want to talk, Smartie.

After all this is just you and me.

What you say stays here,

You do not have to fear.

All right Moron,

What news do you have for me today?

I don’t have any.

I know you always in the works

But today you like you would rather shirk.

 

 

No Moron,

It is just that I am not feeling so well.

I was trying to paint the little house

And I fell.

Man, I am sorry to hear that.

I noticed that you were favouring the left leg

But I didn’t know you had a fall.

Is that all?

Is that all what?

I mean if that is the only injury.

Cause you know that if you wanted help

You could have checked with me.

No Moron, money is tight these days.

Do you mean for you, Smartie?

Man, give me a break.

You of all people?

Who are you trying to fake?

Moron, are you trying to lock up me?

Who told you that I have money?

Listen Smartie,

This is just between you and me

But I hear you have real money.

You are so right Moron,

Cause I am not in to counterfeit.

I do not mean like that, Smartie.

Look, let us leave that subject

And move on to the next.

What do you think about the Cabinet?

What do you mean?

Did you order a cabinet?

No Smartie,

I mean the Cabinet in the House.

Why Moron,

That is what I asked you, louse.

Smartie,

 You do not have to call me names.

But I really mean the House of Assembly.

That is not the same.

O you want to talk politics!

I thought you were getting up to tricks

Cause if you are borrowing

I am not lending.

What about the Cabinet, though?

I heard people saying

The Cabinet is too big for the house.

You mean Parliament right?

Yes Smartie,

I mean Parliament House.

Well Moron,

Given what we are going through,

I could agree with you.

Twenty-six is too large.

The last people put seventeen in charge

And these people complained.

But I believe

That is all part of the game.

These have a lot to correct

So they need many hands on deck.

 

I do not swallow that, Smartie.

These are tough times

And people getting sent home.

A Cabinet that big

Cannot be condoned.

I agree with you, Moron

Don’t tear of your clothes.

Next thing you know,

You would want to share blows.

Smartie, I know that you are a “B”

And I have always been a “D”

But that can’t come between us

No need for a fuss.

That is true Moron

But you have a point there.

I really don’t think

Such a large Cabinet is fair.

Smartie, do you think

It could be made smaller

Now that we are in this position?

Sure Moron

But the question is who you will cut.

I thought you would tell me that, Smartie
And so nicely put.

But I am not the PM, Moron

I didn’t build the Cabinet.

Anyway Smartie,

 All I am suggesting is:

1. Reduce the size of the Cabinet

And

2. Build a bigger Backbench.

If small people could go home

Big ones should also get retrenched.

I can’t argue with that, Moron

But who are they going to move?

That is some homework for you to do Smartie

Besides the other little problem

There in your groove.

What is that Moron?

I am refraining from trouble.

I would hate to burst your bubble.

No, you get your water, Smartie

And away you can hobble.

After Smartie leaves…

Peoples, isn’t that quaint?

All this talk about falling and paint?

Well let me tell you,

I am no saint

But when Smartie got the news

All he could do was faint.

Two were up

And one was down

And now you guess right

That one is not around.

Smartie has a prison trio

On the prison bench,

Now zero in his Cabinet

And he got retrenched.

About the Cabinet and Backbench

Keep that to yourself.

If you are not a builder

Leave those tools on the shelf.

Get your new furnishings

But stay out of the courts.

Hire Purchase is a killer

I am not making sport.

Enjoy the run-up to Independence

Stay safe and be blessed

And remember this if nothing else,

Jesus takes care of stress.

From the standpipe, this is Moron.

I gone.

Stewart Russell © November 2018