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The Saturday poem: The Point

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by Rob A Mackenzie

The point is to repeat. To repeat the point,
the point is worth repeating, even if not:
we need to stick by the manual, even if useless,
to talk about how we think the things we've thought.

The point is worth repeating, even if not
worth retweeting. We cannot trust ourselves
to talk about how we think the things we've thought.
Our independence, our politics, our fitting demise

are not worth retweeting. We cannot trust ourselves
to train a parrot. We need experts to refine
our independence, our politics, our fitting demise,
like the Prime Minister and his unlikeable sidekick.

To train a parrot, we need experts to refine
our received pronunciation. Repeat after me,
"We like the Prime Minister and his unlikeable sidekick" –
not to sound desperate, but sing fortissimo, with comedy

in received pronunciation. Repeat after me,
as the point is to repeat, to repeat the point,
not to sound desperate. Sing fortissimo, with comedy,
we need to stick by the manual, even if useless.

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