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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 03, 2024, 05:33:54 PM »

Marking registers of corpses piled,
The death-camp commandant
Remarks that acts so ‘resonant’
Should not be lost to memory, or ‘de-filed’.

He suggests a plaque should be buried,
With every thousand bodies, to proclaim:
“Bow your heads, you mighty, in shame,
That this great act is to you denied.

We, the Master Race in name,
Did the ‘task’ from which others shied.”
“Brilliant!” The dictator cried.
No fool was there to whistle-stop the ‘game’.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 03, 2024, 04:58:36 PM »

Wise confusion died with the fool.
Now (literal, present tense)
Gravity-filled heads of common sense
File through the doors of the business school.

Earnest, busy, streamlined in sharkskin/snakeskin,
Clear-headed Edmunds, patent-pated,,
Think all thoughts profit-motivated:
Ideas are for marketing, not to think in.

This school has no desks for the sweetly bitter.
One must be clear cut.
Ambiguity doesn’t sell: its shop is shut;
Commerce demands wits leaner and fitter.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 03, 2024, 12:56:16 PM »

Fool-father Socrates takes The Stand,
His child accused of denying The Truth,
Mocking household gods, corrupting (the) youth:
A social menace; clear enemy of The Grand.

The case against is so ‘strong’
(although it contains not a single ‘fact’)
That no one with a semblance of tact
Would dare to declare it ‘wrong’.

And so ... child and parent went to die:
Arrogant, idle, to some plain rude;
Their self-conscious folly (fully) mis-understood.
Over lost centuries their ‘happy’ voices cry ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 03, 2024, 01:42:55 AM »

Altogether unnecessary,
To/2 serious sounding statesmen,
Dead fools’ posts were left open.
They were ‘wasted’, naturally.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 03, 2024, 01:36:53 AM »

Parson Yorick’s ancestors
Followed a dying calling:
Hamlet knew that (his own antics palling)
Cold calculations made cod-pieces of jesters.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 03, 2024, 01:31:02 AM »

Alas, poor Yorick,
The sigh was not 4 a single [=1] corpse,
Nor death’s dissolution of human hopes,
But for/4 a loss more/2 general, 2/too ‘specific’.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 03, 2024, 01:13:57 AM »

Victims now, someone told lies of them,
Tricked them with travesties of the fool’s dilemma,
Tied them 2 form-clause catches, 22 in number.
Then, like dogs, they were killed, ad hominem.

*****

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 01, 2024, 01:41:05 PM »

Innocents followed him:
Noble savages; holy simples;
Skin-saving whimsicals;
Ingenues, bright and dim.

But never again were coxcombs couched
Or crowns cut and egg-middles eaten:
Denied free range, yoked and beaten,
Caged and crestfallen they crouched.

Victims now, someone told lies of them,
Tricked them with travesties of the fool’s dilemma,
Tying them to form-clause catches, 22 in number.
Then, like dogs, they were killed, ad hominem.

*****

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 01, 2024, 12:43:27 PM »

Even his death was doubt-ful.
The world had seen so/too much, its sad weight
Crushed to nothing concern for a fool’s fate:
General woe, great decay, made I but a trifle.

He disappeared as if to spite mourning/Morning
Going to bed @ noon,
Not 2 late, not 2 soon;
Outside, a naughty night was dawning/storming.

Truth-teasing in life, he left behind
Ambiguous death-clues. The poor fool was hanged:
King’s knave mourned? Or dead daughter affection slanged?
Uncertainty, the fool’s eternal bind.

Gone, lost, but not leaving nothing
(He was no altogether fool),
A ‘discarded’, but ‘umbrageous’ tool,
Those who scan can still note him.

*****

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 01, 2024, 12:24:21 PM »

‘Might/May I suggest “ravingsofamadman’ as a title (4 these ramblings)? she (BigC./littlec. = ‘C/cunt($)’wondered/ suggested) >
I made no reply.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 01, 2024, 12:09:31 PM »

On (too) many occasions I have thought-felt life ‘worthless’.
But ... if I were to say: Destroy ItAll in a nuclear war ... would that make me more of a ‘nihilist’ than those who actually build/create/envisage/support/‘champion’ those terrible ‘things’?!
Anyway ... the ‘suicide’ kills him/herself because she/he believes his/her life has no longer any enduring ‘meaning’ ...
Was I ‘there’ yet?!
Not ‘quite’/‘quit’ ...
But ...
Could the world/God/gods/Cosmos/call’it’what you will ... have an ‘end-point’ ? ... after which ... ‘no more ... for better or for worse ...’
‘It’ was not there yet ... but there was a sense among a growing many that I/we/they/it was reaching (towards) some sort of ‘endpoint(.)’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 01, 2024, 11:42:41 AM »

... nearing the ‘end’ of my journey in (‘this’) life ...
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
For I had wandered/rambled off from the ‘straight path’.

How hard it is to tell what it is/was like ... ?!!

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: January 01, 2024, 11:35:05 AM »

2024 ... new year day ... the ‘pilgrim’ wakes to find her-/him-self lost in a ‘dark wood’ ... terrified @ b’ing alone in so dismal a place ... he/she ‘rambles’ ... until ... a hill ‘bathed in sun-light’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Nostalgia? In The Beginning ...

« on: January 01, 2024, 10:58:33 AM »

2024 ... another ‘new year’ western/euro. Dating systems /‘ paradigms’ .... but nothing much ‘changed’ ... he/she/they/we ... were like/as if ‘stuck records’ (in olde/out-mode(a)d form(s) of ‘discourse/dis-coarse’) ... & I/you/we/they/etc ... [ClicheAlert!] ‘never learnt/learned less-ons from his-tory’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« on: December 31, 2023, 08:39:40 PM »

Anyway ...
If I had gone off .,, given into Clare/Claire that night, in the taxi ..,. into my ‘home’ of that time ... she would not have married a ‘millionaire’ .,, & I would not have ‘turned’ out 2b ... a chain-smoking piss-artist paranoid schizoid manic depressive ‘fucking arsehole .., ! ... ‘funnny how ‘things’ turn out ...