Spin Fatigue – Graham Sparks
17Spin Fatigue
Graham Sparks
Bathurst, New South Wales
Australia
Australia,
a ship without a mounting even
for to place a rudder,
where the word democracy is but an empty piece of bling
and referenda seldom get an airing.
A playground for the oligarchs.
All the rhetoric and mon’ and dialog,
that shuns like plague the fundamental issues,
and spans with vehemence, the gamut of peripheral subjects
with spin that’s torqued the members of my hoping organ
rending them asunder,
has left me now a sufferer of spin fatigue,
whilst OZ does trundle on in blunder.
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Yes! Spin fatigue helps me to recognise the false and seek out the truth.
Short, pungent and to the point! Well done Graham.
There is a lot of spin in this world. They try to spin the lies into truth. It’s like in the fairy tale about spinning straw into gold, but now spinning gold into straw. Thank goodness we can see the truth.
Good work Graham.
I read this through a few times Graham, and as so often happens with me I find it difficult to make a comment that adequately reflects how I feel.
This is a short piece, but every word is set to make an impact. It certainly has had that effect on me… Awesome!
thanks folks
well i reckon that this is the last piece i’m gunna send in before the N-universe collapses.
I’ve really enjoyed being part of this magazine and as poetry is my only creative outlet at present,it has been very theraputic to me as well.
I have enjoyed the virtual company of like minded people (I live out in the sticks 40 Ks from nearest town) ,and as I have never met another writer or poet,I am really looking forward to meeting you guy’s at the proposed party.
Ah yes – the party!! We must organise that.
We do like your idea of an afternoon at Mount Victoria – did you suggest the Victoria and Albert? Might be a nice relief from summer heat by the time we get to November … and it’s a half-way point from central Sydney and Bathurst/Orange, so the country folk might like to come for a drive. Or else we fit it in with the XPT timetable? 😉
Thoughts, anyone?
Thumbs up, not down, lol
Wouldn’t that be something… a sort of ‘family’ (re) union. I’d love to meet up with fellow writers. Maybe we could arrange an anual Writers Festival for us. What a blast that would be!
I would greatly appreciated meeting people from narr, especially before I move interstate. Lovely finish before a new beginning.
and a special thanks to Jenny,Ally,and Sarah for making it all possible.
Thank you, Graham – that’s lovely!
But without the energy and creativity of all our narrator contributors over the years, it wouldn’t have been possible – so we owe a lot to you all, too.
Hear, hear!
Most assuredly!
yeah
i did suggest the vic and albert
cause it has plenty of space for functions,(they do a number of annual functions there),
they have 3 large dining rooms and a ballroom sort of thing,
they have an excellent kitchen,plenty of parking space,
and they are right next door to the railway station,and they have plenty of rooms to stay in for travelers.
and they are relatively cheap.I always stay there when i am working in the mountains.
and they are very friendly.
Well, I think location’s done and dusted, then!
Thanks Graham – now we just need to set a date. How does Saturday afternoon, 15 November, sound? Starting at, say, 1 pm so that people can grab a meal, but don’t have to if they don’t want to?
Nov 15 is my birthday!
What a wonderful Idea! To all my writer family who are planning on coming … it might be some beds on floors and a half packed house (still waiting for a start to the building) but you are all welcome to come and doss. We are not that fare from Mt Vic.
Thank you for thinking of it Graham!! 🙂