Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 March 2018

A Poem

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Flying saucers and Jews are shapeshifters

They search the culture when they arrive
To build a vehicle to drive
You see some thing familiar but not the whole truth
Behind image and projection is a booth

Flying saucers and Jews are history

Agents of change that demand respect
In the margins more often than you'd expect
At liminal times of anti-structure
There as catalyst and trickster

Flying saucers and Jews are religions

It matters not if disbeliever,
Doubter, faithful or hater
In praise or in bile
In worship or denial

Flying saucers and Jews are important

They affect the course of things
In radiating concentric rings
Everywhere and nowhere
It is important not to stare

Flying saucers and Jews are dangerous

To your employment and your sanity
To culture and humanity
Your life and home and such
And especially if you know too much

Flying saucers and Jews are secret

There are shadowy groups of men
Who have this as their ken
Causal forces are kept from you
Whether UFO or Jew

You'll lose family and friends
Who won't follow 'round the bends
They'll think you mad or cruel
Or just a hopeless fool
They will not hear your facts
And they will not have your back
Their worldview is their ground
So they must assume it's sound
They don't want to leave confused
Or think that they've been used
So they start on the offense
And say you don't make sense
The alternative seems bad
To learn and become sad
Ignorance is bliss
But there are some things they have missed

Have YOU heard the news?
Flying saucers and Jews!

Monday, 23 November 2015

Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death for “Renouncing Islam”

Isn’t it cute that one of the U.S. government’s closest allies has a “morality police.” Where are the Hollywood celebs when it comes to the Saudis? Crickets, as usual.

Thursday, 12 November 2015

Florida boy, 9, threatened with sexual harassment charges for writing love note

"I like you," the Tampa fourth grader in the Hillsborough County Public Schools district wrote inside a heart drawing. "I like your hair because it is not sloppy. I like your eyes because they sparkle like diamonds."

Friday, 18 September 2015

Racist Indian Editor Fooled By White Guy In Yellowface

"Racist people accuse person who exposed them as racists of being racist."

Thursday, 22 January 2015

Auden

"Our researchers into Public Opinion are content 
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; 
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. 
He was married and added five children to the population, 
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation. 
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. 
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: 
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard."

-W. H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen"