tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054068706119499432024-03-27T11:21:18.740-07:00Seagull on a bag of chipsBarry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-29315721992116294682024-03-27T08:46:00.000-07:002024-03-27T11:20:47.964-07:00Flagshaggers<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flagshaggers</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Patriotic pissed and proud</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Angry loud flag waving crowd</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Knuckle-dragging bric-a-bracs </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Brainwashed fodder for right wing hacks </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Watching GB News all day</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Voting for Reform UK</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Floundering NHS</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Struggling councils funded ever less</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Anderson ex Tory MP</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Made a meal for 30p</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Propagated racist spite</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Joined a party further right</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Once he was a northern red</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Thatcher changed his mind he said</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Never mind the mess she made</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Now it’s like he’s on crusade</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Perpetuating lies</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Everything’s privatised</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The public purse is spent </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pensioners working can’t afford the rent</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Statues war memorials</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Deemed worth more than hospitals</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Peaceful people demonstrate</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">March for ceasefires hope not hate</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Now the opposite’s implied</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By the press they’re vilified</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Football hooligans insist </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Britain needs a populist</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ultra-Tory tools</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From underfunded schools </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t know George’s story</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nor the words of Land Hope and Glory</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Deify Enoch Powell</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Subscribe to The Daily Mail</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Conservative blaggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Voted into power by knuckle draggers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Flagshaggers</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-45746377138454006412024-03-19T01:24:00.000-07:002024-03-19T12:17:12.000-07:00Sparrow<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sparrow</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">At A&E in hospital</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I saw a sparrow skeletal </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Very young and very wrecked </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Having his blood pressure checked</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nearby in another bay</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His mate a scrawny pigeon lay</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Waiting on a wooden frame</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Asking after wotsisname</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Old bill blue were standing by</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Guarding lest the sparrow fly </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The sparrow put his hoody on</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The pigeon sent a text anon</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A porter with a trolley called</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To wheel the sparrow to the ward</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The pigeon rose and all withdrew</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Escorted by the old bill blue</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-67767441332858121002024-02-29T09:36:00.000-08:002024-03-07T03:30:33.722-08:00The Evangelists <p> <span color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Evangelists</span></p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r33:" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ladies gentlemen lads and lasses</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Congregate at MAGA masses</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Evangelical Trump appeasers </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Love <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>him more than they love Jesus</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Christ they tend to overlook</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Cherry picking from the book </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Made it more a self-deceiver’s </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Testament for faux believers</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They are contradictorily </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pro-life pro death penalty </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pro the right to buy from dealers </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Guns with automatic feeders</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Anti-gay and anti-trans</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pro free-speech yet call for bans</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On courses taught by dyed-haired divas</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Loathed by billionaire achievers</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Also gathered here today</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Are neo-Nazis KKK</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">QAnon conspiracy heeders</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Climate sceptic methane breeders</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They’re surrounded by a clique</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That never turns the other cheek </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Proud supremacist straight white geezers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Standby troops for power seizures </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">All when Donald Trump appears </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Give rapturous applause and cheers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Fit for conquerors emperors Caesars </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Miracle makers saints redeemers </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If today our saviour came</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I doubt he’d meet with more acclaim </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Evangelical Trump appeasers </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Love him more than they love Jesus</div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="x1n2onr6" id=":r34:" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="x1n2onr6" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><a class="x1i10hfl x1qjc9v5 xjbqb8w xjqpnuy xa49m3k xqeqjp1 x2hbi6w x13fuv20 xu3j5b3 x1q0q8m5 x26u7qi x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xdl72j9 x2lah0s xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x2lwn1j xeuugli xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1n2onr6 x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1ja2u2z x1t137rt x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m x1q0g3np x87ps6o x1lku1pv x1a2a7pz x1lliihq x1pdlv7q" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7622095494488782&set=a.869387269759672&__cft__[0]=AZUnEB7Aw6M7gOfA-znGmWSSr0C-qLN0HyN4ur3bziRSFczu_pTQmxeLZLOvuSXdGvJ2QodXb4ZFmmFzMd9UGnAsss0NEZGMuD3OIQSMnDOrAw&__tn__=EH-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Share</span></div></div><div class="x1ey2m1c xds687c x17qophe xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m" data-visualcompletion="ignore" role="none" style="border-radius: 4px; font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="xzueoph" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-45836649435349647062024-02-25T09:49:00.000-08:002024-03-24T11:24:37.240-07:00Mop up<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mop up</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The teenage tenant of a bedsit flat,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Adopting the manners of a sewer-rat,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mopped up his gravy with a soft-bread-roll,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crammed it all into his pie-hole,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And chewed it like a crocodile, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gravy dripping all the while,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Down his chin, and on from there,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To his jumper, jeans, and the dining room chair.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He chewed and chewed and when he was done,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He mopped up the rest with another one;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Shovelled it into his maw as before,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And suddenly the dining room door,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Opened and in came his very</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Attractive new flatmate, Kerry;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And he, not wanting to appear crude,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Shut up and inconspicuously chewed.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She verbalised an anecdote or two,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Re someone or other they vaguely knew,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And all but deaf to anything said,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Painfully smiling, he nodded his head,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Struggling, with all his might, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To secretly masticate and fight</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For breath, in panic and despair; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And as she paused for a breath of air,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Share</span></div></div><div class="x1ey2m1c xds687c x17qophe xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m" data-visualcompletion="ignore" role="none" style="border-radius: inherit; font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="xzueoph" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-90943458836086081722024-02-22T06:30:00.000-08:002024-03-07T20:48:53.131-08:00Espresso<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Espresso</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I have acquired a magical coffee,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From the Amazon; a faraway place;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It goes down well with pie of Banoffee;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>convenient rhyme, and in this case,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A point of accord, which my wife and I,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(On having partaken of the beverage),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Jointly attained, one evening, post-pie:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Strange thing: after thirty years of marriage,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Which these days, is itself, an achievement),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My wife seems to have perfected the art</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of nodding, as one would in agreement,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With whatever wisdom I choose to impart </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">After coffee, which I’m liable to do:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a little joke between us; I rattle </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And she makes as if she sees my worldview </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As something other than merely prattle;</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But this one night, she seemed interested! </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Agreeing sincerely with all I said;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the next day, she even requested</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I repeat it! And as I did, her head,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Again, concurringly nodded! Indeed; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A strange thing it was to see her take heed.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This singularly, unprecedented,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Occurrence, we figured, was down to my</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Coffee, with which we experimented;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And tests conducted, required me to try</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Other brands deemed to be worth exploring;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which brands all proved to be ineffective,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Inasmuch as my waffle was boring, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And intellectually defective.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our friends were unknowingly introduced </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To the experiment; each one of whom</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was stunned by my clandestinely induced</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Intellect, which they were led to assume</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was there all along, albeit sleeping:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I further put them to trial, by switching </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Their espressos with one in my keeping;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Earlier pre-prepared in the kitchen;</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An exercise, which surprisingly gave rise </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To no change in anyone’s reasoning;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Positive, negative or otherwise;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And which led to a baffling, if pleasing,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Conclusion: somehow, inexplicably;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The only person affected was me!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(And I’ve just realised, I’ve managed to miss</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A detail, regarding the coffee’s powers,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which I’ll mention now in parenthesis:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They cease after roughly twenty four hours),</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And all you’ve just read, or heard me recite,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Assuming I still have your attention),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I wrote in the hope of shining a light</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On an event of my recollection,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That happened one dawn at Stansted Airport;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An anecdote really, nothing much more, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Though its recitation may land me in court,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And provoke the wrath of the right hard-core.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But so be it! Now, let’s cut to the chase:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d been up drinking my coffee all night;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Enough to make anyone’s heartbeat race;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hence, I was feeling especially bright,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the taxi, taking us to Stansted,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From where we were flying to Italy:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The cabbie hung on every word I said;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And I very nearly, admittedly,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Took up his offer to waver the fare;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He having decided to quit driving, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On my advice, to go study somewhere </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And train for a career in sky- diving!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Fare offer refused; I bade him goodbye.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Feeling quite hungry and thirstily dry,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My wife and I passed through security,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And entered an all but empty café;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I purchased some toast and a brew-of-tea;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And who should I see not five yards away,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But Tommy Robinson! Luton’s proud son;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For many a patriot; man of the year;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sitting alone at a table-for-one;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dapperly decked out in Stone Island gear.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nodding my head by way of “Good morning”,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But giving no sign of recognition;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lest he mistake “Good morning” for fawning;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I took my tray, of airport nutrition,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To a nearby table; and there I sat,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Still In a state of caffeinated elation,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Bombarding my wife with endless chit chat;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or rather: compelling information.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Excuse me mate”, came a voice in my ear,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m sorry to intrude; but would you mind</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If I join you? I’d really like to hear</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Your views on the patriotically inclined,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Democratic Football Lads Alliance,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Reform UK, and right-wing defiance”.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hence Tommy, given my invitation,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Joined us; whereupon I gave him my views,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On those topics; along with immigration,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The woke-left-agenda, BBC News,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Palestine, Trump, Islamists and Farage:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tommy sat silently, nodding away,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Seemingly lost in deep-thought, by and large;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He certainly didn’t have much to say </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In any case; even when the Tannoy blared; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Will Mr Yaxley Lennon please go to gate</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Three”, he simply, as if mesmerised, stared,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Oblivious, to the fact he was late;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I gave him a nudge and made him aware;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He looked like he didn’t understand me, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then all of a sudden, he leapt from his chair</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And ran (I assume) to gate number three.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My wife and I flew to a nice resort </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In Italy, where we stayed a fortnight;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I gave Tommy barely a second’s thought,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Save a brief moment concerning his flight,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Though whether or not he’d caught it in time</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Is irrelevant, regarding this rhyme.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Many months later, on YouTube, I saw</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An announcement: “I’ve chosen a new name:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tommy Robinson, from now, is no more”.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Recalling his voice; he sounded the same,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As the person I’d met and spoken to;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As for appearance; there’d been a sea-change;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His nails were painted, his hair was dyed blue,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And his hippy attire was equally strange:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gone was Stone Island; both coat and sweater;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ditched for a kaftan and a jumble-sale top,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With a printed slogan: “I STAND WITH GRETA”;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His cheesecloth trousers (from a charity shop),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Complimented his open toed sandals,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which in-turn, showed off his feet to perfection;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His wrists were adorned with colourful bangles;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His bearing was of poetic reflection.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Thus, in every way, Tommy was gone;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Timothy Ribbons stood now in his place;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The ugly duckling, if not quite a swan,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was clearly no longer a right-wing head case:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Today, he’s a highly respected mentor;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A socialist muse for aspiring MPs;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He works as a volunteer at a centre,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That offers asylum to all refugees.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto">Timothy Ribbons: whoever would’ve guessed?</div><div dir="auto">Such was the charm of the words that came out, </div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As I aired my views, upon his request,</span></div><div dir="auto">His transformation was never in doubt;</div><div dir="auto">And if that sounds like a load of old toffee,</div><div dir="auto">I’ll <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>gladly repeat it over a coffee.</div></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1n2onr6" id=":r2g:" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="x1n2onr6" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1n2onr6" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="x1n2onr6" style="font-family: inherit; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Share</span></div></div><div class="x1ey2m1c xds687c x17qophe xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m" data-visualcompletion="ignore" role="none" style="border-radius: inherit; font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="xzueoph" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-85760064497745991562024-02-06T10:29:00.000-08:002024-02-22T11:13:16.158-08:00Tobias<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tobias </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">All along the highway,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Potholes everywhere,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t go swimming in the bay,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Turds are floating there.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Two weeks after payday,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The fridge and larder’s bare,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The old in bed, neglected lay,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lacking nursing care.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Burglaries increasing,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Alarm bells don’t deter,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Further cuts to policing,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Further thefts occur,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dental care is ceasing,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Practitioners don’t refer,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Services need squeezing,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ministers concur.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Public funds depleting;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Head teachers choose between,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">School supplies or heating;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Coffers wiped out clean,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tycoons retreating,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In affluence obscene, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto">Workers barely eating;</div><div dir="auto">Redundancy's routine.</div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Council debts accruing; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nigh bankrupt; one-in-ten,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Party hacks pursuing</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Spending cuts again, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Propaganda spewing;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Red-faced angry men;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nuclear war’s a-brewing, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Best go dig a den.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">According to Tobias, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our forces lack recruits; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Should Russia ever strike us,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With China in cahoots, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Freedom they’ll deny us,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lest we fill more boots, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To take on those who’d try us,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In military disputes.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We’re in a time of pre-war:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Said Shapps; Tobias’s mate;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Join the ranks, he dared implore,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Before it gets too late; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He, whose party on the poor, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Imposed a hopeless fate,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Urges them to fight for</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A decimated state.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Government austerity </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Has stripped the country bare;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Targets ever seem to be</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">More misery despair;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tobias can you not see,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This carnage everywhere,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Is the lasting legacy, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of a reckless doctrinaire? </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The outbreak of World War Three</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Would surely be our lot;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If a missile came for me,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From Russia or China shot,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I would to a shelter flee,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or fry, but I would not, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lay my life down needlessly, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For yet more Tory rot.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-22258854855415237862024-02-03T11:03:00.000-08:002024-02-03T11:04:11.276-08:00The Pressure of Expectation<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Pressure of Expectation</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When people of my praises sing,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>like a magic spell;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My confidence starts wavering;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On failure I dwell.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I know not how or why this is,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But basically, it’s down to this:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I never have done well</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Neath the weight of expectation,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crushing me with trepidation.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For example, (one of many):</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">At fifteen years of age,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I could sprint faster than any</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Classmate, in the heat stage;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Running the two hundred metres,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Like a human born of cheetahs;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My name was all the rage;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A diadem; word having spread,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hung weightily, above my head.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A fortnight passed and sports day came,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By which time I’d become,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A legend of unworthy fame,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And worth a tidy sum:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Some pupils of a betting bent, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Considered 50p well spent,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Not knowing I’d succumb, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To a creeping anxiety,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As reader, you will shortly see.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As I approached the starting line,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I heard the boys all sing;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That overstated name of mine:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Whoa, BARRY, BARRY, KING!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Awaiting there the starter’s gun,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Harbinger of my hapless run),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The chorus still did ring;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Thus, expectation on my case,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I, barely set, began the race.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Upon the race I will not dwell;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Positions will suffice;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mine being last, till someone fell,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or tripped, to be precise;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Unmindful of this saving grace,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I crossed the line in seventh place;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The faller’s sacrifice, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Albeit unintentional),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Barely even mentionable. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And of the race’s aftermath</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There isn’t much to tell;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My seventh place was met with wrath,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And mockery as well.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The speculators’, having lost</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Their bets approached me for the cost;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My classmates gave me hell,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But worst of all, my self-esteem</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was overwhelmed by doubt extreme.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t pity me; I’ve learned to live</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With doubt, as people do;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Unease I’m mainly coping with;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sertraline gets me through.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In truth, I really can’t complain;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’m very happy in the main,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As I hope you are too;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And if I fail in competition,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So be it! I lack ambition!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The other day, on stage, I read</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An audience winning rhyme,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And suddenly I’m well ahead;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A legend, in his prime.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My dear friends, again, I say;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When expectation comes my way,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I flounder every time;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t praise me, lest I go to pot;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A living legend I am not.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-31720669145137893052024-01-30T08:37:00.000-08:002024-02-02T01:01:40.087-08:00The Hardest Punch<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hardest Punch.</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A father and a son, estranged,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Kept via oceans, faraway;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No joy or misery exchanged;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of hopes and fears, they’d nought to say;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By stubbornness or pride restrained;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Familial love was kept at bay.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Communication had they not,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yet still they quarrelled all the same;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Imagining an arrow shot,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In anger, disappointment, blame,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And in their minds, they each forgot,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Regret, humiliation, shame.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The father, whom he once held dear,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was by the son, remembered now,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As but a tyrant, wielding fear.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The son, on having failed to flower;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The fruit of loins did not appear, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hence all his father’s dreams turned sour.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And then ill-tidings reached the son:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His father, in a hospice bed </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Resided, and was nearly done;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Aggressive cancer having spread</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Into his organs, every one,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And very shortly, he’d be dead.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The son, with haste, arranged a flight,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Over the oceans, faraway;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Arriving in the dead of night;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(And thankfully, without delay),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Fatigued, yet wide awake in spite; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He viewed his father, with dismay.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Muttering in hesitation, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He offered an apology;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Waited in anticipation; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wondering: would his father be </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Capable of conversation;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Could he even speak, hear, or see?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If angry words, like punches are</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By recipients, harshly felt;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The hardest punch of all, by far,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Is surely from a deathbed dealt;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Would he receive a mental scar?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What words within his father dwelt?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His father soothed him with a smile:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“It really doesn’t matter now;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">How are you son? It’s been a while”:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hence both within that final hour</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Did effortlessly reconcile;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">All grievances forgot somehow.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Awareness, from the old man’s face,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Appeared to turn itself within,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Regarding there a final place: </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Oblivion; where death therein,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Obliterating time and space,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pulls all our fearful spirits in.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Henceforth, he struggled inwardly;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Terror, simultaneously,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Appeared with joyful ecstasy,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Confronting the reality;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The inescapabilty:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Death approaching, imminently…</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then angels, to his deathbed flew;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On having led his son away,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They hid the dying man from view,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As breathing stopped and death held sway;</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Turned off machines, by where he lay, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And saw his final moments through.</div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The curtain hence drawn back, the son</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Approached his father, ever- dear,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And though the old man’s life was done,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">His blissful smile made amply clear:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Joy and eternal peace had won:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Death’s not at all a thing to fear.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A father and a son estranged,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Were finally united by</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Acknowledgement and truth exchanged,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Upon a father’s last goodbye:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Though life his son he never trained,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yet still; he showed him how to die.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-49564393807433518262024-01-13T11:25:00.000-08:002024-01-13T21:19:28.037-08:00See You Next Year<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">See you next year</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Call us when you get home; mind how you drive,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d stand and wave, but I hate goodbyes;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">See you next year, if I’m still alive.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>There’s been a crash on the M25;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Par for the course; it’s hardly a surprise;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Call us when you get home; mind how you drive.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The family members failed to arrive;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Very ironic; don’t you think guys?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">See you next year, if I’m still alive.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Uncle wotsisname didn't survive;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A pisshead severed the family ties;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Call us when you get home; mind how you drive.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A photo album; a faded archive,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A headstone; contemplative sighs;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">See you next year, if I’m still alive.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Life carries on; we daily strive;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Uncle wotsisname had life in his eyes.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Call us when you get home; mind how you drive;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">See you next year, if I’m still alive.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-61690087343669098372023-11-13T09:47:00.000-08:002023-11-13T11:09:59.713-08:00Waxy Lemon<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Waxy-Lemon</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tommy Robinson’s Golden shred</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Barbarian Sue Ellen </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Conservatively spooned and spread</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Stephen’s waxy lemon</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Stephen came</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Downstairs and spurted</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Double-cream on top</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then citrus from his Jif he squirted </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Savouring every drop</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-10196742053010933202023-11-11T02:18:00.009-08:002023-11-12T02:43:04.199-08:00No Armistice on Armistice Day<div style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r8d:" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Armistice on Armistice Day</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In line with the wishes of Yaxley-Lennon, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">coupled with the encouragement of Braverman; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">an army, comprising a hard-core membership </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">of The Democratic Football Lads Alliance, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">will be in London, on Armistice Day, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">lest Churchill’s statue, and The Cenotaph </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">be desecrated; as was The Cenotaph </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in Rochdale, which yielded Yaxley-Lennon </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">a further excuse to use Armistice Day </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in the same manner as Braverman; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">thus rallying those such as the alliance </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">of football lads, whose membership, </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">will team up with the membership </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">of the EDL, at both The Cenotaph </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and Churchill’s statue, forming an alliance, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">under the stewardship of Yaxley Lennon, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">he, himself under the influence of Braverman, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">who’d failed to prevent an Armistice Day </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">protest, demanding no less than an armistice day, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in Gaza; and whether her party membership</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">opposes it or not; she, Braverman,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">has politicised the protest, The Cenotaph </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and Churchill’s statue; giving Yaxley-Lennon</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and The Democratic Football Lads Alliance </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">licence to pummel the police-supported alliance </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">of those marching for an armistice day, </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">for babies whom patriots, like Yaxley-Lennon,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Farage and the DFLA membership</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">deem less important than The Cenotaph,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and Churchill's statue, as too, does Braverman,</div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; 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clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; width: 1px; z-index: 0;">All reactions:</div><span aria-hidden="true" class="xrbpyxo x6ikm8r x10wlt62 xlyipyv x1exxlbk" style="float: left; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; width: 100px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="xt0b8zv x1e558r4" style="font-family: inherit; padding-left: 4px;">1</span></span></span><span class="xt0b8zv x2bj2ny xrbpyxo xl423tq" style="background-color: var(--surface-background); float: left; font-family: inherit; margin-left: -100px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="x1e558r4" style="font-family: inherit; padding-left: 4px;">Tom</span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="x1e558r4" style="font-family: inherit; padding-left: 4px;"><br /></span></span></div></div></span></div><div class="x1c4vz4f x2lah0s xci0xqf" style="background-color: white; 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color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In remembrance of Thatcher </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Conservatives each year</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Praise the old milk-snatcher</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They very much revere</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mail readers highly rank her</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Do they think I should too?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d rather be woke than a wanker</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’m never voting blue</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d rather be woke than a wanker</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t build a statue please</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She demonised </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And privatised </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our public industries </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I really don’t want to thank her</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Feel free to bend your knees</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But the North’s still poor</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In spite of your </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rose-tinted memories </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A lettuce-faced prime minister</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Upon resigning spoke</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Demonised the sinister</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And left-wing cult of woke</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The policies that sank her</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Are totally insane</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d rather be woke than a wanker</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With a Truss-infected brain </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d rather be woke than a wanker</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The billionaires won’t share </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They’ll raid the pots</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Buy bigger yachts </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And leave the country bare</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If you’re not an investment banker </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or a hedge fund billionaire</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And still want cuts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You’re either nuts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or simply not aware</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ex populist party leaders </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Employed by GB News</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Are currently newsreaders</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With very partial views</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Could they be any blanker?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I wouldn’t risk a bet</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d rather be woke than a wanker</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With a tightly closed mind-set</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d rather be woke than a wanker</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Especially since Fox said</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We’re cultists </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And anti-Brits</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mainstream media led</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ridiculous-far-right-rancour </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Has like a virus spread</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The fear of woke</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Makes people choke</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Turns faces gammon-red</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d rather be woke than a wanker</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever woke may be</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Stonewall</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t bother me at all</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And nor does CRT </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A GB or Fox News Anchor</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Might beg to disagree</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But I don't care</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Please be aware</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You’re not my cup of tea</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-90011342873654030172023-10-08T01:54:00.022-07:002023-11-10T01:04:43.633-08:00DBAC<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">DBAC</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto">When <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>we were little boys, younger than three,</div><div dir="auto">Our mother would sing us a lullaby; </div><div dir="auto">A slumberous solemn philosophy; </div><div dir="auto">And closing our eyes, we'd drift with a sigh,</div><div dir="auto">Into the forest of nod, by and by,</div><div dir="auto">Where a chorus of all our cuddly toys,</div><div dir="auto">Joined in with a most melodious noise:</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">CH</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Be seen and not heard, but don’t be a cunt;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To adults and betters, listen take heed; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When spoken to, speak, with never a grunt; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t grab all the things you want but don’t need;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Try on occasion to do a good deed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And when you’re queuing, no pushing in front;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Remember your manners; don’t be a cunt.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We brothers were schooled in different ways:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I, due to failing the eleven plus,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was secondarily taught in Goodmayes,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Arriving each day by not the same bus,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As he, the more scholarly one of us,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto">And the pupil of a school in Gants Hill;</div><div dir="auto">A grammar whose name, I’ll not here reveal.</div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">School names aside: upon reaching sixteen,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We took the first steps on our long careers;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’d soon be working on a machine,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Whilst he’d be banking, and over the years,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Our father’s sage words would ring our ears:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Worldly advice, to be held in good stead, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On the path of life, and here’s what he said:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">CH</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Be honest, work hard, and don’t be a cunt,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By passing the buck, to hide a mistake;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">While shying away from bearing the brunt,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Be seen to be keen, and don’t ever break</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The company rules, or else you might make</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An easy target, upon a witch-hunt,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By sticking your neck out; don’t be a cunt.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">All this and much more, we twin siblings heard,</div><div dir="auto">From father, before our first day at work;</div><div dir="auto">His pearls, punctuated, by the C word,</div><div dir="auto">Were as flying tips, to a fledgling bird;</div><div dir="auto">The novice machinist and young bank clerk;</div><div dir="auto">Founts of new knowledge with no wisdom spared,</div><div dir="auto">Entered their workstations amply prepared.</div></div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And all too soon, I reluctantly found,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Some of the things father said, to be sure,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Were not especially helpful or sound;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">More than a couple I chose to ignore:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mistakes I hid, and the rule book I saw,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As something to flout more often than not,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Though hard work, at first, I gave a fair shot).</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And over the years, I learned many ways </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To foil directors and bosses inclined,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To lessen our rights, and lengthen our days,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With company shares and profit in mind, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Though little reward for our daily grind,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And, when the time came, life- lessons I passed, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Down to my children, without being asked:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">CHS</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Be thoughtful and kind, but don’t be a cunt;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Engage with your noddle before you speak,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And if I abruptly respond with a grunt, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s likely because I’ve had a bad week;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Work can be sometimes decidedly bleak;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A total pain in the arse, to be blunt;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Feel free to say to me: don’t be a cunt.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">And on the subject of “Don’t be a cunt”:</div><div dir="auto">Beware of the likes, of Trump, and Farage,</div><div dir="auto">They are, to your intellect, an affront,</div><div dir="auto">Embraced by the presently far too large,</div><div dir="auto">And wilfully ignorant entourage </div><div dir="auto">Of a populist publicity stunt,</div><div dir="auto">Funded by billionaires; don’t be a cunt.</div></div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And whether or not they bore it in mind,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My kids are, successful, thoughtful and kind.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-45639865141795226822023-10-03T23:09:00.007-07:002024-01-22T05:17:06.049-08:00Boy with Hand Grenade<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boy with Hand Grenade (inspired by Diane Arbus and Colin Wood)</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One long ago warm Saturday in spring,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was with my daughter, in the playpark,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Pushing her up in the air in a swing,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>in a heartbeat, while she was mid-arc,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I noticed a boy, from fair faraway,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Coming directly toward me, I knew;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Though how I knew it, I really can’t say),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It seemed he wanted to talk to me too;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Angrily, frantically, faster he came,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And no more than ten feet from where I stood,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He stopped dead, staring, and I, to my shame,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Reacted as maybe a rabbit would,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On being momentarily ensnared</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By a driver’s headlights: frozen and scared.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Unwittingly, I memorised his face:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dark eyes wide open, wide mouth shuttered tight;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He wore dungaree like shorts, held in place,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By one strap, pulled up high over a white</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Short sleeve shirt, patterned by what looked to be</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Black oval shapes; his thin limbs, protruding</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From these briefly described garments, made me</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Think of a puppet on wires, alluding </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To Pinocchio, but his vacant stare </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And blond hair, furthered thoughts of a cuckoo</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From Midwich; an other-worldly nightmare</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Child, escaped from the lab. All this flashed through </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My brain in a millisecond second, no more,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As I looked at his claw-like hands, and saw…</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the left one: nothing, other than air,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the right one: an actual hand grenade!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And this being spotted; everything there:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Swings, daughter, trees, grass, and sky, seemed to fade</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And disappear, leaving me and the boy</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Standing on opposite sides of the fence, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the midst of a grey, black, and white void;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Desolate and unbearably intense. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We connected telepathically: </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Is she your daughter?” he asked in my head</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Childishly and psychedelically.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I answered him not, asking him instead:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Where are your parents? Are they with you here?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And he angrily shouted, loud and clear:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“THEY’VE GONE AWAY!” then he held up the pin</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of the pineapple bomb, triumphantly,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Regarding me with a reasonless grin</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of intention made clear, abundantly.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He lobbed the grenade, and I, as it flew</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Over the fence and into the playpark,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Saw the grass turn green and the sky light blue,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As the swing returned, completing the arc.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In a heartbeat, she was back in the air,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My baby daughter, squealing with joy,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As backwards and forwards she swung, and there</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wasn’t a trace of the hand grenade boy,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Wandering the grey, somewhere in my mind,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With colourless trees and people, behind</div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1yztbdb x1n2onr6 xh8yej3 x1ja2u2z" style="font-family: inherit; 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font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div><div class="x9f619 x1ja2u2z xzpqnlu x1hyvwdk xjm9jq1 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x10l6tqk x1i1rx1s" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip-path: inset(50%); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: inherit; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; width: 1px; z-index: 0;">Active</div></div></div></div></a></div></span></div><div class="x1iyjqo2" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; flex-grow: 1; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xi81zsa x1yc453h" color="var(--secondary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-17421907514568410092023-10-03T22:35:00.004-07:002024-02-06T10:33:03.114-08:00Rhyme<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rhyme </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They say a poem doesn’t need to rhyme;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>guess they’re right; I see it quite often.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But would it die after quite a short time</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If tongues it couldn’t tickle or soften?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A rhymeless poem’s not easy to write;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Understood by few; by many, not read.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It’s an icy coffin, a silent night;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Stars being millions of phrases not said).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A rhyming poem requires no scheming;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As an epidural gives painless birth;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rhyme gives rubbish a kind of redeeming;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A labour-less stanza of little worth;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rhyming can make of nonsense common sense</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And turn doggerel into pounds and pence.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-56801123978512424322023-09-18T09:15:00.007-07:002023-09-20T07:10:01.112-07:00Joy<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A wealthy successful and worried man,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Attended a private consultancy,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Heard the results of an MRI scan,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Drove to his opulent occupancy, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lounged with his wife in the luxury spa,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Where he and she reminisced, reflected,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Joyously chorused, “How lucky we are”,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And his senses, profoundly affected,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Were enhanced by an intense clarity,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Allowing him to hear and see the true,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Beauty of all things in reality,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And it was if he already knew</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This reality, before he forgot,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He'd forget again, more likely than not.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-63300078502109244392023-06-30T22:22:00.005-07:002023-07-01T00:38:42.059-07:00Scarredforlife<div style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rin:" style="font-family: inherit; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Share</span></div></div><div class="x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m x1ey2m1c xds687c xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h" data-visualcompletion="ignore" style="border-radius: inherit; font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="xzueoph" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-54526603080371556762023-06-26T21:42:00.007-07:002023-06-27T01:01:14.947-07:00Angioplasty<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angioplasty </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Entering a radial artery in a man’s wrist; a thin wire, a stent,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and a tiny balloon, travelled through a catheter,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">to a blocked coronary artery, whereat, the balloon,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">was <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>briefly inflated, deflated, and removed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">along with the wire; the stent having been opened </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and left in the artery; thus ending the procedure,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">after which, the man was placed in post-procedure</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">recovery; the wound on his wrist, where the stent </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">began its journey, now TR banded, lest it be opened:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">presumably this was fitted after the catheter,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">having served its purpose, was finally removed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">following extraction of the thin wire and tiny balloon.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The surgeon who’d inflated and deflated the tiny balloon,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in the man’s coronary artery, during the procedure,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">bade good morning to another: a surgeon who removed </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and replaced old pacemaker batteries. Fitting a stent</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">seems minor, by comparison, although the catheter </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">used isn’t as long and, once the old scar’s been opened,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">replacement is relatively simple; the freshly opened </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">scar very rarely gets infected, and, instead of a balloon;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">a new battery is sent through a shorter catheter,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in order to replace the old battery; the whole procedure</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">taking roughly the same time it takes to have a stent </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">fitted, supposing the old battery can easily be removed;</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and yet: a patient in a bed opposite, was nearly removed</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">to intensive care, because after the patient’s opened </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">wound was stitched, the man with the newly fitted stent,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">concernedly observed, events appearing to balloon </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">out of control, post battery replacement procedure,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">necessitating the insertion of a new catheter,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">into the patient’s wrist, hence mirroring the catheter</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">insertion, performed prior to it being removed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">upon completion of the previous procedure,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">involving the invasive insertion of a stent </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">into a coronary artery, succeeded by a balloon</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">exiting the coronary artery, “Successfully” opened,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">during the "Minor" procedure, whereupon, the radial artery, opened </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">in order to allow the catheter, to be inserted and removed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">was duel-compression-balloon sealed, as lifeblood flowed through the stent.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-30149923964556047582023-06-18T23:43:00.008-07:002023-09-23T11:05:19.237-07:00The Language of Dreams<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Language of Dreams</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Floating adrift in subconscious streams,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">our slumbering thoughts, awakened by sleep,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">communicate, in the language of dreams.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Amygdalae <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>shed chaotic themes:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">trillions times trillions, epiphanies, deep;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">floating adrift in subconscious streams.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Parallels, at infinity’s extremes,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">converge, where secrets we no longer keep,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">communicate, in the language of dreams.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I met there a ghost; she proffered sunbeams,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">dispersed into air and caused me to weep,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">floating adrift in subconscious streams.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Here Comes Everyone!” an artist screams;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">and scientists, having made a great leap,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Communicate, in the language of dreams,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">with architects of immaculate schemes,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">as emperors, in a blabbering heap;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">floating adrift in subconscious streams;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">communicate, in the language of dreams.</div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-43184476656832328252023-06-03T11:57:00.015-07:002023-06-10T11:04:57.043-07:00SortnFinnegan<p><span style="background-color: white; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Share</span></div></div><div class="x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m x1ey2m1c xds687c xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h x1wpzbip" data-visualcompletion="ignore" style="background-color: var(--hover-overlay); border-radius: 4px; font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="xzueoph" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-51146451206244170502023-05-04T12:55:00.030-07:002023-08-18T09:39:07.746-07:00Superbus<p> </p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r1e:" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Intro</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Somewhere in Texas, in 2064,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">As the war on woke reached its fortieth year,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A boot smashed in an old cabin’s front door,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>flashbang blew, a squad-member yelled “Clear!”</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And Proud Boys entered the cabin and found,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Nobody home; their quarry gone; vanished;</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Most likely aided by the underground</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Rabble of degenerates; long banished,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">By Trump, Rittenhouse and Dale, respectively;</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">QAnon’s most recent accusations</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Of “Vegan terrorist activity”,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Leading to arrests and home invasions,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Left vegans no options, other than to</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Start eating meat, or go into hiding;</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Woke as they were, in the president’s view,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And jail-bound too, upon his deciding;</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Hence the unoccupied status of Tom’s </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Cabin, he having gone some place faraway </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">From the fallout of media hate bombs;</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">But not before a leaving a final say,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">In the form of a relic cassette tape</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And deck, along with a note saying “Play,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Listen; heed, how fascism takes shape”; </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And of this since, “Classified”, document;</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A memorised version I hereby present,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Although; please, let it be understood: </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">My Texas accent isn’t very good.</div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Superbus</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This here’s the story of Tarquin Dale;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>followed Trump on the campaign trail,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And hanging on Donald’s every word,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He squawked ‘em, fair like a Myna bird.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Being too young to buy his own gun;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tarquin had to play with daddy’s one:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An SA Carbine A15</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Equipped with a hundred round magazine.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He was shootin’ cans in his spare time,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Long afore he learnt his first nursery rhyme,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And by the tender age of sixteen,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A finer young shot there aint never been.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And watching Trump most every night,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Sermonising</span> the Christian right:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Republican Americans, born and bred;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He took it all in his pliable head,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And as he watched, his dry lips trembled,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Murmuring the mantra of those assembled;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It was like he was kinda hypnotised;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or maybe even: radicalised:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“MAGA MAGA MAGA “, he said, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As Black Lives Matter filled him with dread,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Likewise, ANTIFA, gender transition,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And those of a communist disposition.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways; Trump won in 2024,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And true to his word, he settled the score</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With all those mentioned above and more;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Many folks found themselves breaking the law</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Just by being themselves; no other reason;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Trump, all but declaring open season,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On anyone judged a chink in the chain,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">While he made America “Great Again”.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And what weaker link could there ever be</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Than heathens deriding biology;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Defying God and birth assigned sex;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Denying science, XY and XX?</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gender reassignment subjects, along </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With their enablers, were just plain wrong,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And besides; gender was a made up thing,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">In the eyes of the legion, Christian, right wing.</div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Doctors got fined, research was closed down;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gender promoters were chased outta town,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gender affirming care was revoked,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the righteous right got evermore stoked;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Not least of all, Tarquin Dale; still underage;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">At seventeen, he was a ball of rage,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And on hearing of a Trans demonstration,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He grabbed daddy’s gun without hesitation;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And daddy didn’t mind; no siree;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On the contrary; he was proud as could be,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Waving goodbye and wishing him luck </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As Ma drove off in the pick-up truck</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With Tarquin riding shotgun by her side;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Daddy would’ve loved to come for the ride,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But he had a Klan meeting that day,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the truck only had two seats anyway.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Four hours and two hundred miles later,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The patriot, underage, terminator,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Left Ma in the truck and joined with a crowd</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of Fred Perry wearing boys strong and proud,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Facing off their foe: Trans people, standing </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Out front of a gender clinic, demanding </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">A restoration of rights they’d won,</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Cos overruling left ‘em with none.</div></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And Tarquin, having swallowed the lies,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the conspiracies that gave rise</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To the mass paranoia, the kneejerk swing </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To the right, and the mind-set that made Trump King,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Raised daddy’s carbine loaded with lead,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Took aim and shot ten human beings dead;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As the proud boys cheered, and when the police came,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And led him away, they yelled his name:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Tarquin, Tarquin, Tarquin”, they cried,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Drowning the choking on the other side,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As, teargas canisters fired at will,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dispersed the protesters he failed to kill.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Least that’s how I perceived it, when I watched,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The playback, Tucker Carlson claimed was botched,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Inasmuch as it didn’t tell the whole</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Story; provocation, he said, played a role,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Namely, Trans protesters, burning the flag,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Along with a model of POTUS, in drag,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And Tarquin opened fire after he got hit,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Cos them Trans was hurling all kinds of shit,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And at the same time, one of ‘em said they</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was gonna kill him, and the fence gave way,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And all hell was about to commence;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Long story short; it was plain self-defence!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the righteous, full of fire and fury,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Along with the judge, and all the jury,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Were a hundred percent inclined to agree:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The verdict was read, and Dale walked free.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Guess y’all know the rest: Trump stayed president</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Long past the time he should’ve been spent,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And when blood stopped being pumped through his veins;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Vice President Rittenhouse took up the reigns,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And, enabled by Trump’s commandment;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Scrapping the 22nd Amendment;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For twenty five years, Rittenhouse made </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">America Great as the Christian crusade,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rounded up all the Trans people, and gays,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Along with those still promoting their ways:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They locked ‘em up in asylums and jails</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And that being done, they followed new trails,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Leading to leftist, lecturers, teachers,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Abortionists, radicals, Marxist preachers,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And anti-Americans, ‘cept those who knew,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Keeping real quiet was the best thing to do.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Meantime our old friend, Tarquin Dale, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was walking his own presidential trail;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which led, hell you know where I’m gonna say;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And President Dale is there, right this day.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yep; Kyle Rittenhouse is finally gone,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But the so-called “War on woke”, carries on</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And demagogues, needing someone to hound;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Expedient scapegoats must always be found,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hence Dale’s recent haranguing of those,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He and his regime presently oppose:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And that, dear friend, is where I come in,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Having committed the cardinal sin</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of, with animal welfare in mind,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Avoiding meat products of any kind;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The consequence of which choice I’ve made</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Being somehow linked to a downturn in trade,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An imminent crash, sky high inflation,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A rise in poverty and deprivation,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A rapid decline in the nation’s health;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And curbs, including on freedom itself! </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Being vegan’s all but a federal crime;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I know it’s only a matter of time,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Before the Proud Militia Boys come around</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To cuff and take me prison bound,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">So I’m gonna finish this here tape,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Leave it on this table, and make my escape,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the hope, one of You Proud Boys hears</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And heeds my account of Dale’s childhood years;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of how he was radicalised like I said,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By right wing lies fuckin’ with his head,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And of how everyday folk such as I</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Witness injustices, turn a blind eye,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Till they realise, albeit too late;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They may be subject to meet the same fate;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Cos when a dictator’s zealous and vexed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">You never can tell who’s gonna be next.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rp5:" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Outro</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There the tape ended, as I recall;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And I guess you’re now wondering where I </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Heard it and why did I relate it all</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In a <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>bad accent, punctuated by</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A daft looking Stetson? Well, in the first case:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was present during the raid; in fact,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I shouted “Clear!” having flash-banged the place;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Yes: I was a brainwashed, British, expat.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As for the accent and Stetson; I saw</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A photo of Tom, in cowboy attire, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hanging on the wall, opposite the door</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of the cabin we wrecked and set on fire;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">And accent, I knew from having heard </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The tape, he recorded and left behind,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the hope a Proud Boy, might heed his word</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">…</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which I neither heeded, nor kept in mind,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Till the camel’s back broke, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">When the president spoke,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And labelled British-born immigrants: </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">WOKE.</div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x168nmei x13lgxp2 x30kzoy x9jhf4c x6ikm8r x10wlt62" data-visualcompletion="ignore-dynamic" style="border-radius: 0px 0px 8px 8px; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="xq8finb x16n37ib x3dsekl x1uuop16" style="border-top: 1px solid var(--divider); font-family: inherit; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-top: 12px;"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z x78zum5 x2lah0s x1qughib x1qjc9v5 xozqiw3 x1q0g3np x150jy0e x1e558r4 xjkvuk6 x1iorvi4 xwrv7xz x8182xy x4cne27 xifccgj" style="align-items: stretch; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Share</span></div></div><div class="x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m x1ey2m1c xds687c xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h" data-visualcompletion="ignore" style="border-radius: inherit; font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="xzueoph" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px;"></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-2305216830832311842023-04-15T11:03:00.004-07:002023-04-15T23:06:56.948-07:00Conversations with Invisible Friends<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conversations with Invisible Friends </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If ever you see me walking alone,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In deep dialogue with all but thin air;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Having neither earbuds nor microphone;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>seems I’m talking to someone not there;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But I often, with invisible friends,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Make compromises, draw lines under fights,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Come to understandings, tie up loose ends,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Philosophically put things to rights.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">These days I find I’m comfortable in</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The company of spectral beings;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Images of old friends residing within</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">My memory bank, along with the strings </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of events that led to their present state,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As over old pastures we ambulate.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-2741735706501928302023-03-31T10:25:00.010-07:002024-02-28T06:30:41.503-08:00 Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (institute for sexology)<div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r7c:" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Institut für Sexualwissenschaft</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Institute for sexology)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In remembrance of Lucy Meadows 1981-2013</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Teacher; Lucy Meadows, otherwise anon;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On having had full gender reassignment;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Caught the attention of Richard Littlejohn,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Who subsequently called for her retirement:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“He isn’t only”, the bigot prattled on,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Arrogantly; with thinly-veiled incitement,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“In the wrong body; he’s in the wrong job”;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And he all but piously urged her to stop,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Quote: “Putting his own selfish needs ahead</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of the well-being of the children he has taught”.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then came the hate mail, in which far worse was said </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To Lucy, evidently, deemed fair sport,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And a short while later, Lucy was found dead;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Poisoned by carbon monoxide; in short;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She’d killed herself, and the coroner’s dim view</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of the tabloids, bears repeating: “SHAME ON YOU!”</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mindful of Lucy Meadows (R.I.P);</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s travel back to a long ago date,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In Berlin: May 6th 1933;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When Germany was a Nazi-run state,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And when The Institute for Sexology,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was looted; and, on being forced to vacate;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Its staff were imprisoned, beaten or killed;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the vacancies, Nazi officialdom filled.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Institute for Sexology would</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Today be over a century old,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">If it hadn’t been looted and closed for good,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And research was allowed to continue, unfold,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lest any knowledge be misunderstood,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Kept under wraps, or illicitly sold:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Homosexuality, abortion,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gender, feminism, contraception;</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto">All that, and other like things, were hated</div><div dir="auto">By many; regarded un-German; uncouth;</div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And let’s face it; it can’t be exaggerated;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The same could be said of most countries, in truth;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gay people were historically, ill-fated;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the wrath of radicalised völkisch youth,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Unleashed in Berlin on that fateful day,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Had long before then, been simmering away.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Institute, founded in 1919,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was the brainchild of a German physician;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Magnus Hirschfeld, who for many years, had been</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">An advocate for gender transition,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And rights for the gay and transgender scene;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A brave, undoubtedly hazardous mission;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Though The Weimar Republic government;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Progressive and liberal; gave their consent.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Institute lays claim to the first ever</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Full-gender-reassignment, there performed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On a woman, who once had tried to sever</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her penis, in awareness of being malformed,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">When merely six years of age! And whether </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or not, in retrospect, this drastic form</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of self-harm was due to gender dysphoria,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I can offer no account or Memoria.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dora Richter; known affectionately </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As “Dora”, prior to being employed</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">At the institute was, respectively;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A baker, an actor and a null-and-void </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(i.e. rejected) soldier in the army,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The draft into which she’d failed to avoid. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Finally; she entered the Institute, where</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She worked, till the Nazis came visiting there.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Dora’s reassignment was, ironically,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Performed by Erwin Gohrbandt, who, post- war,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was accused of war criminality, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Re Nazi experiments , he oversaw,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Concerning “Hyperthermia mortality”;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tests for which he was never imprisoned for:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And, having mulled over those blemishes;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I mention them here, in parenthesis). </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Turning the spotlight back on Magnus Hirschfeld</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Reveals a scapegoat for hard-right hatred:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One night, he was nearly fatally quelled,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By a mob, who afterwards left him for dead,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And on hearing he’d survived being felled </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The disappointment could even be read</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In rags whose censurers had plenty to say</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">About Magnus Hirschfeld; born-Jewish and gay. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For fourteen years, The Institute continued </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Research, during which time it became a kind</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of refuge for those who were mainly viewed</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By a public, misguidedly inclined</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To label them, filth, unnatural, lewd,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sick, twisted, perverted, and morally blind;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Whereas, at the Institute, people were free</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To live-out their gender and sexuality</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In a respectful and safe environment;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Trans employees were each supplied with passes,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(A Weimer Government legal requirement),</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Allowing them to move among the masses </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In dress unrestrained by birth-sex assignment;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lecturers held educational classes </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Relating to matters otherwise taboo;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There was marriage guidance; sex counselling too;</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Institute championed equality</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For women, STD treatment, abortion, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gender recognition and legality </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For homosexuals; a source of revulsion,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Long drawn-on by men in authority,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Though never near the point of exhaustion; </div><div dir="auto">Which begs a question, I’ll venture out loud:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Were gay people more a majority crowd? </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">? </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In 1933, when he came to power;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Adolf Hitler, unleashed a remorseless surge</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of hatred, which Joseph Goebbels; by now,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Reich Minister of Propaganda, would merge</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With hypnotic speeches, crowned with a vow</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of terrible revenge on the Jewish scourge,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Coupled with the purging of “Homophile” clubs;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Whose members deserved the severest of drubs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Less than five months later, The Institute</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Was raided by students; Nazis to-a-man;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Given free-rein by the government, to loot</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And destroy, like Nazis do, because they can;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And accompanied by a brass-band to boot!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The institute library they overran;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Every book therein deemed fuel for fire, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hence ceremoniously thrown on the pyre.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Institute employees, were, by the SA,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Manhandled with prejudice in the extreme,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And, in accord with the aforesaid vow, they</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(The survivors)would later either team</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Up with Nazi scientists, and doctors, by way</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of collaboration, or join the endless stream </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of humanity, flowing beyond prison gates,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">To an ocean of expendable inmates.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Dora Richter; it transpired, hadn’t died </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But escaped; settling eventually, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In Czechoslovakia, where she applied</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Successfully) for a new identity.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Magnus Hirschfeld, unwittingly deprived </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ill-fate; having long-ago left Germany,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He’d been traveling the world all the while, </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Though he died, two years later, in exile).</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As for the Nazis, the war, and all the rest;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What can be said apart from; “It’s history”?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But what of humanity put to the test?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have the lessons given post-victory,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Been all but forgotten north, south, east, and west</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By majorities, favouring bigotry?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Far-right politics, today, seems to be</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Rising again, as far as I see:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Populist leaders, of hard right agenda,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Espoused by the likes of The Daily Mail,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Are, seemingly, each a leading contender,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">On many a nationalist campaign trail:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Anti-abortion, gay and transgender;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">These authoritarians, should they prevail,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">(Their vote-base grows daily, evermore vast)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Look set to repeat the mistakes of the pas</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Richard Littlejohn, today, is still employed</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">By the Daily Mail; brain-washing millions,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">In spite of Miss Meadows, whose life was destroyed </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">By the likes of his shallow opinions;</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Ignorant and baselessly paranoid</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Rhetoric, fit for fascist dominions</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Share</span></div></div><div class="x1ey2m1c xds687c x17qophe xg01cxk x47corl x10l6tqk x13vifvy x1ebt8du x19991ni x1dhq9h x1o1ewxj x3x9cwd x1e5q0jg x13rtm0m" data-visualcompletion="ignore" role="none" style="border-radius: inherit; font-family: inherit; inset: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition-duration: var(--fds-duration-extra-extra-short-out); transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: var(--fds-animation-fade-out);"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="xzueoph" style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px; white-space: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-51813627845838787422023-03-24T11:37:00.001-07:002023-07-14T08:04:55.053-07:00Know Your Place<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Know Your Place</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Andrew Tate phoned up his local escort</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Agency, who, due to a word misheard,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sent round a girl, not his usual sort,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of a demeanour completely absurd.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She, entirely at odds with his wishes,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Entered his house, went straight to the kitchen,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Opened cupboards, and talked to the dishes!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Andrew hollered; “Who let this mad bitch in!?”</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">At which his house security appeared:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“This is the escort they’ve sent you”, said one;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I have to admit, she is pretty weird;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Would you like me to go and get my gun?”</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But Andrew was back on the phone, now raging;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Who the fuck is this you’ve sent me?” he cried;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I can’t take her to the fight I’m staging”.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m sorry sir”, the manager replied,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Can you repeat your request regarding </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The type of escort lady you required?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This Andrew did, on top of demanding,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The agency receptionist be fired;</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"Of course sir, and we’ll also send a new </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Escort to you straight away, free of charge;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">After all sir, it’s the least we can do;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We'll even throw in a naked massage”.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With this assurance the call there ended;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The manager summoned and dismissed his</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Employee, who, being most offended,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Took him to a tribunal, and this </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Reportage, I must now draw to a close,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Lest I influence the outcome one way</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or the other, as far as judgement goes;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The jury being given final say,</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Regarding the strange case of Mr Tate’s</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Request for a woman who, “Knows her plates”.</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205406870611949943.post-74883552491393978782023-03-24T11:36:00.000-07:002023-03-24T11:36:00.889-07:00The Warring Twenties<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.9375px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Warring Twenties</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Remember when the wall fell?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A mountain peaked with hope</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Arose and for a spell</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">We <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>jointly climbed its slope</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But it soon became a task</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Impossible to bear</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The slope was left to bask </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In wanton disrepair </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The mountain disappeared</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Collapsed upon itself </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And in its place appeared </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A mirage formed of wealth</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Attention soon arrested </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Another race began</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Now violently contested </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">By zealous jealous man </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.9375px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The mirage seems quite far </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From being justly claimed</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And the warring twenties are</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Most very aptly named</div></div>Barry Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10775912039565481606noreply@blogger.com0