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Cheers Phill it is about the busker who Maree and I loved listening to her playing and who I had a couple of conversation with about music. The song is more about the perception of a person is sometimes different to their reality. I won't be recording the song myself as my health is not up to it.

Brian. thank you it will be interesting to hear how you do it.     

Phill you are a top musician and the good thing about being 70 is you wont have to worry about those young groupies throwing themselves at you, trying to get you pregnant. Paul and Ringo are still going strong and they must be around the 80 age mark and to top it of you now can hear them in concert without all the screaming groupies of old.

Thank you Jim.     

Used as a sex object and not loved an interesting poem. Boy meets girl they jump into a sex microwave no slow cooker relationship build; a quick pounding of meat nothing tender nothing sweet.     

EB I like old  Queen Liz  I think she does a real good job. I am not much of a Royal watcher so I am not really up with the play when it comes to Harry and Megan and Harry and Willy.
I think William will be a credit to the royal family as he seems to handle things well in public. Maybe Harry and Megan are now going to be the next Kardashians making a living as so, called reality celebrities.  I cant be bothered following  all this modern celeb stuff.   When I was younger I was always following the Beatle sagas with John and Yoko, Paul and Linda so maybe its just me being and old codger.

Wow guys some real good writing on this post. I salute you all.     

Excellent strong lyrics Beamer. I always find it hard when things or issues are black and white once politics enters it things start to develop shades of grey.  A bit like an onion once you start pealing it there are different layers. Politics in what should be simple start to muddy the water.

Cheers Phill

I'm glad you got my satire in the poem in hindsight after writing it does open up a discussion about big business. . It was a stormy wet day when I wrote this more along the lines of a Cat Stevens, “Father And Son” in this case mother and son giving voice to both viewpoints his and hers. When I turned sixty I went from being very employable to no one wanting me. I applied for over 180 jobs to finally getting offered one working for our dysfunctional city council a job I hated but I took on as it was all I could get.  I worked with some wonderful people there but the political  management was shocking. Doing that job at times I got a lot of flak making me at times look  like I had thrown away my moral sword. I hadn’t thrown away my moral sword but I had to deal with issues created by  the council which were wrong. People would see me as part of the problem because of problems our council had created. Though I wrote this not thinking of that on reflection it does cover that a bit. Reading what I’ve written now it does highlight how a young person with a family could have moral conflicts over earning and doing what is right so if that opens up that discussion that is good. I guess all corporates around the worlds have an ability for good and bad so that discussion can enter moral realms of right and wrong. Here in NZ now there is heated debate over the ownership of our national sport Rugby Union. There are two camps around the commercial side and funding of Rugby. The executive wants to sell  12.5 % stake of Rugby commercial rights to a big company called Silver Lake. Under the Silver Lake deal NZR would set up a company called Commercial Co which would own NZR's commercial rights. Silver Lake would take a 12.5 stake in this for $390 million .The rugby unions Players Association (NZRPA) is opposed to deal, saying the numbers don't add up and that selling off 12.5 percent in perpetuity doesn't make financial sense, leading to a bitter dispute between the two parties. The NZRPA agrees the game needs a substantial cash injection and along with investment company Forysth Barr are proposing a public share float which it estimates could raise $190 million. NZR has rejected a public share float believing it would only appeal to 'mum and dad' investors and doesn't meet other criteria the Silver Lake deal does. The debate is do we see a big corporate such as Silver Lake being a good thing over Kiwi mum and dad investors. So, the question now is Silver Lake going to be a rugby saviour or not? What sort of hands do we want to feed when it comes to our national sport? So in the poem the old lady is anti  dodgy corporates  and the one that  her son has gone to work for. The son sees his job as financial opportunity not to be missed..

I love the way Phill  used his excellent music skills to compose and perform this piece of music Papa Whisky Tui. Those who know the NATO alphabet will see the PW connection here. I hope this video with a Tui  that hangs around my neighbourhood playing a roll in it does Phill’s tune justice. Many books say that Tui's are usually solitary.  It’s place in the forest is among the treetops where the flowers and fruit are borne.

Tui  they fly at great speeds. Even though several Tui may feed in the same tree they have clearly defined territories. Outside of the breeding season they become partially nomadic and travel to towns and rural gardens and forest patches in search of good sources of nectar and fruit. Some birds regularly occupy each year summer breeding and winter feeding territories that can be 20 plus kilometers apart.

Although the Tui primary food source is nectar, they will hawk large insects. Tui will jump around and beat bushes to disturb stick insects and cicadas. This  bird, is called by many names other than Tui or Koko, was of great importance to Maori and there are many stories about this relationship in the literature. Apart from potted Tui being a favourite food, they were very often kept in cages and trained to speak and even welcome people to a marae.      ( Marae is a courtyard of a Maori meeting house, a place used as a social or ceremonial forum.) Many of these birds were famous and even fought over.

The ornithologist Olive commented on the Tui pugnacity and courage and wondered if perhaps this character has been the cause of their being attacked and sometimes killed by companies of blackbirds and starlings. However, the Tui has also been known to kill the birds it pursues