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Wilson Tuckey I love you man

Wilson Tuckey, I love you man the way you look over your glasses as you kick those journos’ arses I love your hairy nostrils and your square double chin but most of all I love the way you know everythin’ not a skerrick of doubt, any subject, any time you can hold forth. you’re ready to chime Wilson Tuckey, I love you man you don’t need no research. no need to hold back here is your wisdom, you’re on the attack here is the gospel according to Tuckey you front them with macho, you front them so plucky you tell them the answers straight from the heart they look like stunned mullets as you take them apart Wilson Tuckey, I love you man you run rings round those greenies, those tree hugging scum with their talk about warming, their climate change glum I trust you Wilson, you know better than them you can leave them all gobstruck with a home spun gem Wilson Tuckey, I love you man you can spot a terrorist at a hundred paces the ones with the beards and the slightly dark faces we don’t want them here taking our jobs and houses with their Qurans and burqas and baggy white trousers Wilson Tuckey, I love you man you show us what it means to be Australian some call you redneck, some say you’re not cool but you are our bedrock, you are no fool you are the brown substance of this wide, sunburnt land and that’s why, Wilson Tuckey, I really, really, really love you man.
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Written by
mike-hopkins
Australian
Published
Nov 23, 2011
Lines·Words
34·261
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©Mike Hopkins

Blog: mistakenforarealpoet.wordpress.com

Wilson Tuckey is / was a particularly colourful and, in my mind, obnoxious Western Australian politician. He lost his seat in the Senate at the last election. 'Journo' is an Australian journalist. 'gobstruck' is shocked or lost for words.

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