Views in verse on fairy tales.
I today spotted online a report released by Fairfax (Willitts) - 'Australia ranks 13th in world innovation'. I read it with some interest as I was thinking "well hey ...that ain't too bad". Reading on through the summary multi-columnar report I also noted that Australia is ranked therein as 5th in 'productivity'. I didn't read any further...
I could only presume that this information was picked up by Bloomberg mistakenly from a fledgling 'movie to be' perhaps starring Kevin Rudd as Hansel and Julia Gillard as Gretel in a Union movement backed remake of the classic fairy tale. Tony Abbott would look great in drag as the wicked witch ...don't you reckon?
Hansel & Gretel
Hansel and Gretel
were soul-mate lovers
with an eye on getting to the top
They sunk their future into social media
And worked very hard full stop
Fast movers in society...
At all the events
they were there
Hansel looked after the people side
Gretel did the books
(...and her hair)
It was fine
Till Helga came along
An events girl with real 'smartz'
Seen all around town with Hansel
Winning all the bigwigs' hearts
Gretel heard rumours
Of this success...
concluding smoke must be fire!
When Hansel
denied any knowledge of this
Gretel called him a big liar
The company boomed
The industry swooned
Helga became the new face
As Hansel pushed the business along
Gretel dropped right off the pace
She lost control
of her back-office too
on hearing that Helga was pregnant
She left the business
Without checking the facts
Something Hansel further rejected
The next week they hosted
the media awards
All these things came to a head
As out of the crowd
Gretel roared loud
and politely shot them both dead
The moral is clear:
we needn't fear
of going into media...
But before finding fame
with three German names
You need to take care:
That there's
more of challenge
to all involved
than the maintenance
of one's own hair
were soul-mate lovers
with an eye on getting to the top
They sunk their future into social media
And worked very hard full stop
Fast movers in society...
At all the events
they were there
Hansel looked after the people side
Gretel did the books
(...and her hair)
It was fine
Till Helga came along
An events girl with real 'smartz'
Seen all around town with Hansel
Winning all the bigwigs' hearts
Gretel heard rumours
Of this success...
concluding smoke must be fire!
When Hansel
denied any knowledge of this
Gretel called him a big liar
The company boomed
The industry swooned
Helga became the new face
As Hansel pushed the business along
Gretel dropped right off the pace
She lost control
of her back-office too
on hearing that Helga was pregnant
She left the business
Without checking the facts
Something Hansel further rejected
The next week they hosted
the media awards
All these things came to a head
As out of the crowd
Gretel roared loud
and politely shot them both dead
The moral is clear:
we needn't fear
of going into media...
But before finding fame
with three German names
You need to take care:
That there's
more of challenge
to all involved
than the maintenance
of one's own hair
from my i-pad - Grahame J Flynn
