Image: a cartoon by the much loved cartoonist Michael Leunig!
Those Fertile Lies
If your vegetable garden languishes
and manure brings no results,
just give them a little evening news
and there’ll be bumper crops,
all those fertile lies,
rich fantasies,
faux concern
and invented anxieties
with smiling invitations
to more episodes of the same,
a soap-opera of nitrogenous value,
stay tuned for another
exciting excrement,
Oh, wait, there’s breaking wind,
every night,
even the mushrooms gave us
shade last summer.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
parallax 
HaHaHa, Brilliant !!!
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I echo that (in thought), literally!
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Many thanks Charlotte.
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Thank you, a great compliment indeed.
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👍🏻
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I can smell it!!!
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It is a potent and constant brew, I’m not surprised.
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Agree🤔
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Fun poem! 🙂 There is (especially) one nefarious news channel in the U.S. that cranks out pure crap.
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Thanks for that Tom, yes, I know the one. We have plenty of BS down here too.
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BS is plentiful
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Lol, it sure is Janet.
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😅
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🙂
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😻 Amazing
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Thank you, I think the lies are everywhere, even if some are unintentional. 🙂
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Lol!
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Spread thickly of course.
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Of course! 🙂
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😉
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I’ve been weaning myself off news, since it’s too frustrating.
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Yes, I did that ten years ago, though I read headlines sometimes once a week.
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lol absolutely love love love it!
I’ve only been reading online headlines for ages now … I prefer my manure on the garden 🙂
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Ha, that’s what I do, have been doing for over ten years now, so good. Thanks for loving it 🙂
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been double that for me … it’s repetitive nonsense, loaded with propaganda, nobody needs it!
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True 😉
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Must read ABC article on Phillip Adams, a hero I met in my teens who influenced me greatly … had no idea of his history … don’t miss his take on pop art and football 🙂
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Yes, I’m a fan of his too, he’s about to turn 80 now
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yes it’s his birthday tribute … what a man!
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I can’t bear it.
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I worry that some do.
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Whoa.
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Yes, they’re out there 😉
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So very timely and a brilliant piece! Wow!
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Sadly so, I wish it were otherwise, thank you for the lovely compliment.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Couldn’t resist the topic.
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Ha!! Yes, I know that feeling too!! Great piece!
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Thank you for that 🙂
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Bravo
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Couldn’t resist 🙂 thank you.
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great one
👍✏🌃
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So very true and said so very well
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Sadly so, thank you for that.
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