{"id":3546,"date":"2010-10-25T08:37:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/content\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2022-01-31T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:45:14","slug":"tap-poem-by-judith-loriente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tap&#8221; Poem by Judith Loriente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3547\" title=\"tap1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tap1-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"tap1\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tap1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tap1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3548\" title=\"tap2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tap2-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"tap2\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tap2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tap2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Turning Off The Tap&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h4>It never rains, it only pours<br \/>\nWhen contractors get their money-grubbing paws<br \/>\nOn the common wealth of this once-great state<br \/>\nOh, will the wastage never abate?<br \/>\nNot as long as John Dubbya &amp; Company<br \/>\nContinue to have the outrageous effrontery<br \/>\nTo take our taxes and haemorrhage them to<br \/>\nThe greedy, never-sated few.<\/h4>\n<h4>They can spot his type a mile away:<br \/>\nThe type happy to pay and pay and pay<br \/>\nAnd say: &#8220;Look here, we&#8217;re taking action!&#8221;<br \/>\nTill their governments&#8217; finances end up in traction.<br \/>\nAnd reluctantly, to stop further harm<br \/>\nThe poor old voters hand over the farm<br \/>\nTo people who impose economic rationalism<br \/>\nWith all the subtlety of fascism.<\/h4>\n<h4>There&#8217;s only one way to stop the drip:<br \/>\nTake the captain and crew of this ship<br \/>\nTruss them up with a length of cord<br \/>\nAnd throw the whole lot overboard.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Turning Off The Tap&#8221; It never rains, it only pours When contractors get their money-grubbing paws On the common wealth of this once-great state Oh, will the wastage never abate? Not as long as John Dubbya &amp; Company Continue to have the outrageous effrontery To take our taxes and haemorrhage them to The greedy, never-sated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,134,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-past-events","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watershedvictoria.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}