Crocodile Dundee's Tears

Play up, play up and play the game.

Sport as war by another name.

The cheat is caught

at silly mid on

television.

Where better

to beat their breasts

than in Lamentations?

Tears for the TV

the PR says,

"how sorry am I?

Let me count the ways".

It is time for them

to stop all their crying:

The currency is devalued:

a dead child, fire-lost families

these are Sophoclean,

not the scraping of a ball.

Stop sobbing.

Besides,

who says they repent?

We have seen

lachrymose lies

from murderers

and thieves

seizing their moment

in the klieglight.

Take your punishment,

stiffen your lip;

save its collapse

for a cancer

or a corpse.