(From google news: Liberal hopes that Tony Abbott might avoid further mistakes have been shaken again by his declaration that potential leadership alternatives Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull have done well because they have a good "captain" at the helm.)
With apologies to Walt Whitman:
Oh captain, my captain, our hapless trip is done
The ship is cracked from stem to stern the prize we sought has gone.
The end is near, the threats I hear, the peasants are revolting,
While follow eyes the stable door – through which the horse is bolting.
But oh, woe, woe is me,
Oh the sad and shameful sight,
Where on the deck my captain lies,
Humbled by a knight.
