And now for The News.
Death, Die, Destroy!
Fear! Fear! Fear!
Not precious
to explain,
the flowery habits of prose.
A poem can say
fuck you
in so few words.
In rhyming couplets,
or just straight.
The love of my life.
What does that even mean?
Until you change your mind,
And walk away.
Or is it forever?
Is that a promise?
One you can keep.
Will keep?
Poetry is
Isis, or
Daesh, or
Isil, or
IS, or
rabid muslims,
with bad attitudes, or
whatever the fuck they call themselves,
being blown up by a bomb.
"Ah!" Boom!
The way these fanatic's
brain tissue splatters
against the nearest wall
is poetry in motion.
Kersplat!
One less
to deal with,
is poetic
in
itself.
Kerboom!
One
less.
If, in the end,
there is no individual liberty,
what are we fighting
the war on everything for?
A man infected another man
with HIV, knowingly,
and got 30 years prison.
In this modern era
that takes away
individual liberty,
it is only fair,
that it takes away
individual responsibility,
as well.
Some people really like to talk,
They must think
they are interesting,
Or important, or something.
Sadly the incessant talkers are
Rarely any of those things,
And deep down, I think,
They know it.
So do the rest of us a favour
And get therapy,
Stop making us all pay
For the infrequency
of you mother’s touch,
or the absence
of your father’s love.
Heal yourselves,
And Stop taking us all daily
On your mindless journey.
Half the world is starving
Half the world is bloating
Half the world has no water
Half the world has too much,
finding ways to build a bigger trough,
rather than giving anything up,
for those who don't have enough.
Summer is here
time for prawns and beer
and little swimming shorts
for all the queers
suntans, bbq's,
late night chatting,
long drinks,
family time
Sunday afternoon batting
beach hijinks
burnt skin
zinc cream
easy livin'
sweat and flies,
alleluia
rise up singin'
in praise of the sun
People running for the lifts,
like rats in drain pipes,
or snakes with cuts,
are dicks.
Like death and taxes
there will always be more,
idiots and lifts.
If they put that much effort
into the rest of their lives
they would be rich.
Yes, yes, valued added, my friend,
Say it is organic, or ergonomic, or some such thing
And the more we can charge,
Sell it at a premium, my friend
It makes no difference if it works, or not
As long as it is value added for us.
I just couldn’t make it today
I tried, I truly did.
I got up, I went outside,
I felt the sun on my skin,
I felt the wind in my hair.
I made it that far,
by the gate, by the car.
But, I just couldn’t,
I don’t know why?
A feeling in the air,
the world in despair,
the news telling us
it is not safe out there.
I headed back inside
closed the door
and climbed back into bed
slipped under my blue blanket
pulling it over my head.
Disenfranchised youth
Thrown on the scrap heap
By free market policies,
Although the politicians
Deny it with talk that is cheap
Designed to profit their benefactors
In the good books of who the pollies keep
We learned our morals from the bible?
That is never going to ensure our survival
We need to be more grass roots tribal
And leave the fantasies (and frocks) to the priests
Every time I see your cock,
I see her cunt in our bed.
No, I don’t wish you well,
actually, I wish you dead.
No, I don’t forgive you,
I thought we had something real,
go to hell.
People are dicks running for the lifts
If they put that much effort
Into the rest of their lives
They would be rich.
Forever Young,
that is what we all want to be.
May our light always shine,
for that is all we can ever hope.
And for the longest time we are thought of
after we're gone.