HOW’S YOUR FORESIGHT?
By
Whim Wham
I haven’t the Gift of Prophecy, I don’t set up for a Seer — Which is just as well, Or I might foretell More than You care to hear. Let Midnight chime In four days’Time! ' ■ Tomorrow’s another Year'. * ,". •;; .- . ♦ I’ve tried the Soothsayer-General,, Wellington (Private Bag); His visionary Mind Was a Year behind, On account of Fiscal Drag — By the Look on his Face, A terminal Case Of statistical Jet-lag. The Commissioners for the Future Didn’t have Much to say:. ; - s ' , ' ' Making urgent Corrections - Of their Projections, - y „,,.. . A few. Light-Years away, Sir, wouldn’t You hate v 7; > T 9 prognosticate "... .^A^ute.past New. Year’s .Day?. Old Time is still a-flying, k l > ? s z ■_ Somebody.pays the Fare, ?;• ■Us Passengers too— * ’ ’ ’ ' ,; I suppose We do: ’7 . Expect to; land, Somewhere? When the Gas runs out f!S ‘S'* ACi i ; . ■7' . •; W£P be wiser about \ : What its really like — down There!" 1 <
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Press, 27 December 1980, Page 10
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