Flash Fiction: Spitting the Dummy

Note:
A dummy is also called a pacifier in some parts of the world. Spitting the dummy is Australian for when a person acts like a baby with an outburst of over the top anger.

MUSE: I keep seeing politicians. Babies that sit in high chairs.

TANNILLE: On their golden thrones. Throwing tantrums. Spitting the dummy.

MUSE: Surrounded by the shi- crap they create.

TANNILLE: It does get up my nose, like a bad smell that lingers.

MUSE: No, that would be us the peasants darling. The byproduct of their greed. The scum. 

TANNILLE: Ok, but could they at least be more discreet?

MUSE: It’s too late, they’ve started soiling themselves. 

TANNILLE: Time for a nappy change.

MUSE: I hate to imagine the rash. I doubt they can be silenced.

TANNILLE: Bring out the dummy…