Poem
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Limerick
There once was a shock-jock, annoying:
foul-mouthed, sexist, racist, not-toying.
He got his last warning,
the public were scorning.
And the sponsors, they walked – that was buoying!
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of The Hate Race and Foreign Soil. She is a winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry.
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