Schapelle - your going to be a star!

Views in Verse - on consequences. 




Well they do say "if you've done the crime - serve your time". But time served, should it be open slather to profit after the fact by wallowing in 'bad celebrity'? 

It seems that we are getting two very similar scenarios unfolding side by side with the Jordon Belfort story in the US (the Wolf of Wall St guy).


Belfort has served 20 odd months of his sentence for embezzling millions and it seems is at it again on tour offering advice via his new curiously heightened profile. While 'our Shapelle' (convicted drug smuggler) will soon be returning to Australia from Bali to a hit mini series on 9 Network and offers galore for first interviews on arrival. It seems the 9 Network deal has lapsed.

Notwithstanding our laws prohibit financial reward from crime (say books), this curious element of 'bad celebrity' such as Belfort carrying out "how to do it" lectures can hardly be controlled. 

Celebrity has a calling card all of its own. The Colby family at large has already profited by such opportunities it is clear to see despite the laws. 

But hey ...chill out. To envy these guys is rather shortsighted given the 'real lives' that they live and will continue to live; looking over their shoulders day to day.

The late Chopper Reid's widow was quoted loosely as saying "thank god he's gone - now we can get on with living our lives in peace'. 

In closing ...'ill gotten gains' carry 'cold comfort' in life.  



Actions and consequences

(written as reggae song)

Don't go skipping in a mine field
Running through a church
Laughing in the face of integrity
Actions and consequences
Have a strange way of coming back
On he who should've known better originally

Riki enjoyed so getting her kicks
In winding up people at work
She found she got a laugh from it all
though she drove some people berserk
But in the end as things
they have to go
Most thought her quite a jerk

Jimi teased other drivers
Just to see how they would react
But in doing so
he always got himself so very
Caught up in his act
While the others impacted by it
Were rarely offended by it
And so they drove off much intact

Jonty liked to fine dine but
waiters never found him fine
So too for the people who supped with him
Most or all of the time
But manners to the fore
Tact right out the door
They told him where to draw that line

So ...
Don't go skipping in a mine field
Running through a church
Laughing in the face of integrity
Actions and consequences
Have a strange way of coming back
On he who should've known better originally
yes, he who should've known better originally 



Grahame J Flynn - Sent from my iPhone

Happy Australia Day - let's celebrate!

Views in Verse - the Australian.  

Happy Australia Day - let's celebrate!

I am of Irish and English extract - a daily struggle if there ever was one - the conservative and the rebel in the one psyche. Many Australians are. I guess, that is who we mostly became from our early colonial times.

However migrants have now come from all over the world to this great land and forged what it is that we all are today. Not to mention those who lined these shores two hundred years ago when the English first arrived. 

Let's celebrate our great country and all the people in it!!!

My image of the Great Aussie bloke as below is framed from my early years and many of the men I still admire to this day - (including my 'more than Irish' Dad).

The Great Aussie Bloke

He's been the lovable larrikin

The butt of many a joke

For he speaks his mind right at you

plain speaking kind of folk

To get a true likeness of him though...

the painter would need few stokes

For straight up and down 

just as you find him

is the great Aussie bloke:

Give him a field

He'll raze it clean 

just a a given day

Give him a bar 

he'll fill it with fun 

At his regular pay

Open his eyes 

to a worthy cause

He'll move  

without delay 

Yet introduce him 

to a worthy miss

He'll quietly shrink and choke...

Not much with his softer side

The great Aussie bloke

The 'engine's always running'

He's 'chatty' and forthright

A friend  in need...? 

He'll turn up ready

to help him with his plight

Injustice found?

In his own way

He'll defend the given right

A time of darkness...?

he'll be there too

to raise his sleeves to fight...
Then without words
he'll tip his hat.... and
slowly roll a smoke...
little else to say really...
Straight up and down
Just as you find him

He's the ...great ...Aussie ...bloke

Forwarded from my I-phone Grahame J Flynn

Grey Power ...experience, you can't beat it!

Views in Verse on experience. 

GREY POWER - EXPERIENCE, YOU CAN'T BEAT IT!!!

I am not sure that older workers are really appreciated in the workforce until they're ...gone.

Four AM Hay & George

"At it's core ...a spiteful act"
The Sarge said at the time
"The killer fired so many shots
I'm left in just one mind..."

"His ring was in his pocket...
The motive is quite clear..."
"I'd back my work of thirty years
in what I'm saying here"

"That the men just love to be loved
While the women just want to be wanted
Yes...the men just love to be loved
Oh and the women just want to be wanted"

"Perhaps her rage was triggered by
the age of this one's charms
maybe he has strayed before
to another's willing arms..."

"But officers
I tell you this
as I stand here this grey day
The woman scorned
is my first bet
to act in this crazed way
Against my fears
In all these years
I've seen this notion true..."

"That the men just love to be loved
And the women just want to be wanted
I said the men just love to be loved
Oh and the women just want to be wanted"

"She'll likely return to her home
She'll be shocked by what she's done
Probably no place else to go
without her chosen one"

"Take her in boys ...but please be kind
She's 'lost her life' today
and remember...
sometimes with cases like this one
The family blocks the way"


"Too many times
...too many times
I've seen this reoccur
And in telling you now
of my first thoughts
I'm left with only words
a loss of basic tenets
the 'wherefores and the why's"

"That the men just love to be loved
And the women just want to be wanted
I said the men just love to be loved
Oh and the women just want to be wanted"


In the wee small hours of this new day
His words come back to mind
in all the murders of this type
I'm reminded to be kind

But it makes you truly wonder
of so many folk at large
So unaware I have to say
to the wisdom of old Sarge...
lost in a world of distraction?
succumbed to fatal charm?
or is it just hardwired
to the truth...?

"that the men just love to be loved
while the women just want to be wanted
I said the men just love to be loved
Oh and the women just want to be wanted"

Oh and the women just want to be wanted"
"...yes the women just want to be wanted..."

Sent from my iPad - Grahame J Flynn

 

 

Ozzy Osbourne ...out of the fire ...into a marriage forged in iron

Views in Verse on marriage. 

I have just read the history of Black Sabbath - one of the few truly endearing heavy metal bands from the Seventies. My son gave me the book for Christmas; being myself a refugee from a garage rock band way back then. Some things you just can't leave behind.

Sabbath - never as good in my opinion as Led Zeppelin and Uriah Heep who were from similar roots - but hey they did have that something 'unique'. This isn't a review of the band however... so I won't go there further. Indeed I wouldn't recommend the book (Symptom of the Universe)  to most people unless they have a truly broad interest in English rock bands of the period.

Notwithstanding that, this book, very well written by Mick Wall, is a great expose on the evolution of a marriage of Ozzy & Sharon that 'morphed' over the thirty years or more in question. The background being, the hardest part for the band wasn't the five years of initial fame - it was the tortuous decades that followed. To me the relationship of Ozzy & Sharon is the only real survivor of the book; where most of it paints a very sad picture of human destruction by drugs and fame.

Sharon Osbourne, anything but the English rose being the tough daughter of a rock promoter, steadfastly builds a marriage and family with this 'hollow man', whom she not only rescues from himself, but teaches him to live to be 'who he is' - the hardest thing for a recovering addict to accept. And of all the things that Ozzy had to achieve, a long term marriage would always seem his 'hill too far'. And let's be honest, he isn't alone.

I often think as we stand and speak at weddings and try to paint a picture of what is to come in life for newly weds, we very rarely attempt to paint the whole picture. We can only dwell on the romance of it all. It is far too complicated otherwise. Simply because, you haven't lived your life till you have lived it; and every couple's journey is a truly unique one...no other compares. None more colourful and challenging than the intersecting lives of the Osbournes though ...regardless of it all, they seem to have survived the ride.

Well done Ozzy - not bad for a self professed "fucking dummy from the 'black country' who never knew anything about anything"!

Rings around the moon

I give you my solace
You deflect my pain
You rebuff my feelings
Again and again

You look back 'stony'
I revisit my words
You insist upon leading
I shout to be heard

Two steps forward
Then one back
A loud tumultuous dance
It needs intervention
That's for sure
Yet little will happen by chance

Choice is a given
Throughout our lives
The actions our own
For want or for try
To step out of time
A very fine line

Running rings around the moon
Yes ...rings around the moon
We've more chance
To be one day seen
Running rings around the moon

Our best behaviour's
on show a while
It was good last May or June
But going astray
Is not ok
not even in coming Junes

We came together
not by chance
We both came knowingly
a fledgling thing...
a lifetime ring...
a bold ship tossed at sea

some days aren't easy
some days surprise
to hold it together
...to realise
...to give  up the dance
...to forfeit the prize

Running rings around the moon
Yes rings around the moon
We've a chance
To be one day seen
Running rings around the moon

As a pair
we are well matched
so people seem to say
I guess this view
Comes right from 'us'
A face we both portray...

I speak your thoughts
You speak mine too
The words come out one way
Two different lives
transformed as one
and gifted to this day

The die is thrown
The thread is hewn
We won't release it
now or soon...
...this vice like grip
...this binding tune

Running rings around the moon
Yes ...rings around the moon
Locked in time
On a one time path
Running rings around the moon

Running rings around the moon
Yes ...rings around the moon
For better or worse
On a one time path
Running rings around the moon

Sent from my I-phone - Grahame J Flynn

To be or not to be ...the choice is always yours!

Views in Verse on choices. 

One day at a time

Lots a trouble in the world my friend
That's something that we all know
Seems to me that we hear it each day
But it ain't gonna stop the show
Cause dwelling on the downward spin
Only makes your misery grow...

So when people say:
"Nice to see you old mate...
 how are you going today?"
Might be the sky is falling in
But I just simply say...

 I've been living my life
One day at a time
Just watching the sun
Rise and fall
Life sure is good
When all that you do
Is done for your one and all
My family and friends
Mean the world to me
I listen when I hear them call
I'm living my life
One day at a time
Winter spring summer and fall

Too much talk about
religion and war
And money that's for sure
It's all just 'cock and bull'
The glass is half empty
 Seems all of the time
whenever man is it full?

So when people say:
"Nice to see you old mate...
 how are you going today?"
Might be the sky is falling in
But I just simply say...

 I've been living my life
One day at a time
Just watching the sun
Rise and fall
Life sure is sure good when
All that you do
Is done for your one and all
My family and friends
Mean the world to me
I listen when I hear them call
I'm living my life
One day at a time
Winter spring summer and fall



Sent from my iPhone - Grahame J Flynn