REALLY AWFUL TOP GEAR CHANGE

If voters never change their minds,
Remaining in the dark,
It is because, one often finds,
Those minds are stuck in ‘park’. 

But those that can, I greatly fear,
Attempt to change at all,
Will switch them straight into top gear …
And then, of course, they stall. 

The politicians they will choose
Small change do not like much,
But when you have a lot to lose
They’re experts with a clutch! 

With grating gear big tenders steer?
Let fluid change what’s static;
By greasing palms will then appear
Transmission automatic! 

They’re very good at change to ‘low’,
And on a downhill course,
Their gearboxes get stripped and so
Go cart before the horse! 

The change we fear that next we’ll earn –
And nothing could be worse –
Is that the old guard will return
With gears jammed in reverse.

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