Omnicide

Omnicide*

My ten -year old daughter took a day off school last week

Due to depression over what happened in Australia.

Greta Thunberg is her hero;

No One is too Small to Make a Difference.

I told her I will buy her the little Penguin this week.

Nobody listened to kids when I was growing up,

And we all knew that grown- ups were idiots.

You just had to look at history!

Now, they have an all- female led government in Finland.

Again, Scandinavian! They seem to have it

All figured out up there. Put it down to

Scandi- Noire Syndrome. Only the ones

Who live in an ideal society can dream up, by necessity,

The very worst Hells - which is why their old men are finally silent.

* Omnicide is a term coined by the Sociologist Danielle Celermajer in an attempt to define recent events in Australia.