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Budget 2011: A Journey in Verse

Zora Sanders (et al) May 10

Earlier today I asked the Twitter hive mind, half in jest, whether anyone could render the 2011 Budget in verse for me to make it more interesting. Lo and behold, I got some truly excellent responses which I present here for your enjoyment.

“Sqaubble amongst ye, all n' sundry/ Bribe the ppl with the ppl’s money/ Hospitals funded, schools erected/ Ruin my Tv to be elected” —@Mark_A_Hooper

“how is sustainable / exchange, a way / to expend a life. / deep. inside. pockets. / talk about price. / i break cost every time…” — @gretchencello

“Wintry budget blues / Cool response to Labor cuts / Is this Swan’s swan song?” — @christophrrrrr

“surplus: While the sun shines, make hay. Today’s concerns must make way. For fortune unending; Countercyclical spending.” —@significance

“eye provide : (how close hands feed) : watch habits : does trust come in #budget : i do not. have. a price. (costing) you. nothing.” — @commsadviser

“and it never occurred to the voting buffoons, we’d be starving our way through the resources boom.” —@nikrodden

“it’s below zero: / chill wind off the lake: red as / autumn in ledgers” — @spikelynch

“Her with scissors, with hair down to her feet, tries to shave a little bit more off the poor bald bastards” — benjaminsolah


 

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by gretchen cello
10 May 11 at 15:17

so much fun…

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