Our Own Mugabe Moment aka “Blame Someone Else Day”

State of the Nation” [SONA.] Report.
Joint sitting: both Houses. Thursday Feb 12, 2015.

Friday the 13th came early
For SONA
SO NO SO NO
NO NO NO NO
Same ole…
Same ole… report
On relative stability
Of a wobbly backbone
Carefully deflected: risen on
A “POINT of Privilege” NOT
A ‘point of order’.

 

No No No’
A “POINT of PRIVILEGE”
Madame speaker.

 

Are we now a POLICE State? someone sks
Later when a question of
Privilege, seemingly unanticipated brings
Authority
Crashing down.

 

Red goes
Mourning goes
‘Terra’ goes
Bantu goes! “It’s a slippery slope” he
Voices woes
The applause for SONA grows
Routine; reflexive: without theme
without
Ardor.

 

Some doze; others…
Knows a bad time comes
Again
SO NO SO NO
SONA

 

Who will pay back
The money;
Point of Privilege NOT
Point of order
Clauses 14C & L [?] of some random
Numbered annexure to a rulebook appendix points
To a motion of Privilege
Last applied – perhaps
To Lord Charles Somerset.

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Perhaps or
Maybe
Oliver Kromwell – he of
Drogheda…. *

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“Poppycock!!” growls Gatsha
To a “Point of Privilege”.

 

A question of privilege
And choosing to hear
What will be heard: Madame
Speaker chose the point
Of order
To be outweighed by disorder:
To be curtailed
Lest it determine a fixed response: “When
Will the money be repaid?” Madame
Speaker.

 

This is not a new point Madame
Pointed
You may not raise this Point
Of order carefully ignoring to note
The QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE
Caring NO Thing
For
A QUESTION of
Privilege.

 

“Will it be repaid Madame
Chair by
EFT, by CASH or [perhaps] by
E Wallet?

 

Neatly deflected then, further
Questions overridden
Privilege overwhelmed by renta thugs
And bullies wielding guns and
Masking fists: they were evicted with
NO point of privilege to be ordered
To interrupt a deflection
Deflected in this
Our fine
Mugabe Moment.

 

!NiK[Feb.12: 2015]
Nicholas Jakari

 

“After the massacre, [at Drogheda] Oliver Cromwell declared to the English Parliament, “I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches…”
Ref: www.christianity.com/…/massacre-of-drogheda-under-oliver-cromwell- 11630121.html?

 
*The first Friday 13th each year is traditionally “Blame somebody else day” In 2015 it came early in Mzansi [as South Afrika is commonly called by its inhabitants].