SAMMY
Good old Sammy Newman
Was carted off to brainwashing school,
But he came back just as he was before
And made the brainwashers look like fools.
Now Sammy stands for freedom
Though he’s not that smart a man,
Still, he fights against conformity
More than most of us ever can.
Yes Sammy says what he wants to say
And, ‘Damn the consequence,’
He always speaks his mind aloud
Though it doesn’t always make sense.
Yes Sammy never takes any bull
Even from those who are in charge,
They may try to lock his truth away
But Sammy’s still at large.
Is Sammy a freedom fighter?
Or just a bloke who won’t take any crap?
When he says things that badly need to be said
He somehow always causes a flap.
But Sammy keeps on going
Doing and saying what he does do best,
He’s booed by politically correct traitors
And is cheered by all the rest.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
Sam Newman was a virtually unknown fairish Aussie Rules footballer. way back when. He reached celebrity status as the resident loud mouth on the Victorian version of The Footy Show years later. However, he was inclined to piss off the politically correct zombies of Australia. Until, deciding they's had enough of the complaints against him, the TV network sent him off to political correctness school. To his credit, he came back just as loud mouthed and politically incorrect as ever!
Written on October 26, 2008
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 885 |
Words | 167 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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