James Orrock: ‘Lizard Drinking’ and ‘Little Richard’

Lizard DrinkingFlattened like a proverbial lizard at drinkAnd convinced its stifled farts don’t stinkThe Academy decides to outlaw the punOn the advice of consultants turned pinkAs buckets of raw prawns in noonday sun—Postmodern lunacy hangs like a cheap suitClaiming nothing is universally true, to boot.Online influencers with enhanced lips and boobsTeach “life hacks” to pimply punters on YouTubeAnd six-pack muscle-bound gym-junkie hunksInstruct homeboys how to manscape pubes,It’s low rent pedagogy for submerged punksTrying to find their way in an empty universeTelling them nothing is really real or perverse.Locked down, multi-jabbed, transfixed on devicesFighting over toilet paper in Coles, what crisis?Released, we jerk about in mosh pits face-to-faceSpruik Harmony Day but never mention ISIS,In the world’s most successful multicultural placePolAir surveils childcare centres and synagoguesAs pollies hope voters quieten on shisha and grog.

While a quixotic PM fights Tories by tilting at windmillsHis sidekick Sancho farms sun on plains and air on hillsFilling the country with a panic of impending doomAnd draining power to reduce emissions, obtuse dills!Saving the planet by delivering a cost-of-living boomOur deluded duo of intermittent energy zealotsIs turning the workers into paupers and helots.James OrrockLittle RichardSo the architect of rock ’n’ roll dropped on his knees to pray.On tour you had owned the stage in a green-jewelled turbanAtop canary-yellow suit draped in a crimson cloak,A septic tank stripteaser raucous in lorikeet regaliaWhose pelvic gyrations gobsmacked the Aussie punters;Breathing on disciples from Hendrix to Lemmy via Jagger and PrinceAmid backslidings and glad tidings, you rejected the glamourOf evil turning back to Jesus when a snowbird brother dropped dead,Your dialectical dance with the sacred and profane resolved in Gloryland.



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