LIFE'S IRONIES

Isn't it one of life's supreme ironies

that the people who are paid the most

and endowed with the perks of the job

are the one's required to expend the least?

Directors, Chief Execs, Presidents, Chairmen

very few of them altruists in truth

many obscenely remunerated or in sinecures

courtesy of the old school tie, a club or by birth

And what of those paid the least?

truckies, nurses, check-out people, scientists

teachers, garbage-men, car assemblers all working Dickensian hours

no lurks, perks, tax-write downs .. there's the twist

Ford's wage-earners can't have a $20 rise but ...

The head sharang Jacques Nasser is forced to take a $19 million salary

shelf-stackers, bus drivers, petrol station hands get bugger-all

while Mr Eck at Coles get's a $4 million bonus as the top canary

There must be a moral to all this irony

share-holders, apparently, have lost the plot 

or so the talking-heads, grifters, suits or carpet-strollers would have us believe

their copy-books have absolutely no blot

In our ignorance we condone or help perpetuate

a system iniquitous and blatantly unfair

for there aren't too many of us with our snouts in the trough

why, even the pigs are flying .. they've left in despair