BRIGHT SPARKS


from the ABC set TECHNOPHOBES, LUDITES AND THE MODERN WORLD

NOTHING CHANGES

No amount of social scientist will ever
Attempt to change a bulb without doubt
Instead they will search for the root cause
As to exactly why the last one went out

GLASNOST

It would take a hundred and fifty two communists
To change a light bulb in a socialist republic
One to petition the Ministry of Light for a new bulb
Fifty to establish the state production quota for it
A hundred militia to force production with the unions
And one to secretly order one on the Internet

THE LIGHT OF MARXISM

No self respecting Marxists would ever
Attempt to change a light bulb their self
For the seeds of revolution and change
Are already within the light bulb itself

WESTMINSTER CHANGE

It would take two Politicians
To change a light bulb to be plain
One to change it, and another
One to change it back again

WESTMINSTER ALL CHANGE

It would take four Politicians
To change a light bulb I admit
One to change it in the first place
And the other three to deny it

DIVORCED MEN NEVER CHANGE

How many divorced men does it take?
To change a faulty light bulb today
None, is the answer because they
Never get to keep the house anyway

THE CHANGING ECONOMY

No amount of economists will attempt
To change a bulb that needs replacing
For market forces would cause it to occur
If the light bulb really needed changing

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