Followers

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FOLLOWERS

This word has changed its meaning with the passing of the years.

Cast your mind back to the gentler days of yore,

When the mistress would chastise her maids and, no doubt, cut their pay

If amorous suitors hammered at the door.

'No Followers allowed!' she'd say when they were interviewed;

'No men-friends lurking by the garden gate.

If I should chance to see you with young Fred the butcher-boy

Instant dismissal! That will be your fate!'

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The descendents of those servants lead very different lives.

Their love-lives are unfettered and quite free.

And then, of course, there's blogging, with a language of its own;

Words used by us, the Blog community.

One Follower is not enough! We yearn for eight or ten!

We tot them up and weep for those we lose!
And we Follow other people (in Cyberspace, of course)
And we're choosy about who we're going to choose!

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Gerald Gee has summed it up in his cartoon, seen below,

(Poor lady! She has clearly been deserted!)
Just think how far removed she is from that poor Victorian lass
Who got the sack because she merely flirted!

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Gerald Gee

AND THE REST!

(Australia has just had an apology for an election.)

'Hung, drawn and quartered' and the rest!

Party Politics! What a pest!

For weeks they squabbled, sneered and wrangled,

And in plots became entangled!

Ask one 'What is your policy

On A or B or even C ?',

And they responded 'First of all

Let's make the opposition crawl!

Before I tell you our intentions

Regarding Drought Relief or Pensions,

Let's drag the others through the mire!

Their policies are really dire!

For instance think about Iraq....

And bringing all our soldiers back....'

'Hang on! What is your policy

On A or B or even C?'

'I'll get to that.....but first agree

That they behave abysmally!'

'Answer the question.......' no more time!

I thought it tantamount to crime!

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Now, at least, the minor players,

Unremarkable, but stayers;

Farmers, ordinary blokes,

In touch with honest country folks,

Have, at last, got the Balance of Power.

Let The Parties take a long cold shower!

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P.S.

Yesterday the choir sang for a group of Stroke Recovery patients. We were rather a small group and Pam and I were the only altos so we had to work hard with our harmonies!