Labi Siffre - Into The Light

For the sake of heterosexuals

Homosexuals have to be
Portrayed behaving in a way
Heterosexuals will accept as Gay

The loudest voices seize the day, and so
I’ve rarely seen portrayed
A homosexual with whom I identify

___

An American talking truth & making sense for 25 minutes

___

Adult Content

WHY MERRY IS CHRISTMAS GOD USE NOT YOUR HELD BRAIN RESPONSIBLE ANSWER FOR THE ITS QUESTION ACTIONS

___

YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT

You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade
[And people who love the same gender grade]
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught

From the Musical "South Pacific"
Courageously written by Rodgers & Hammerstein in 1949
[Addition in brackets by me]

___

The day began

With snow and clergy lying
One on frozen, one on welcoming, eager
Ground; the second rabble rousing, wielding

God in hypocritical good news

And I thought of Jesus, who failed
To mention homosexuality; forgetting
Lies fill pews

___
Uganda considering imprisonment & death penalty for homosexuality

___

Do nothing and you're part of the crime

Email HERE & urge the Archbishop of Canterbury to condemn the abhorrent and lethal Ugandan legislation that will deny human rights to homosexuals.

This is what I sent:

There is a craven and misguided public silence from the Archbishop of Canterbury regarding the abhorrent & lethal Ugandan bill to deny human rights to homosexuals.

Perhaps he could point out that Jesus condemned adultery and never mentioned homosexuality. Strange how many Christians disagree with Jesus in this.

The archbishop might suggest, with serious humour, that any pogroms against homosexuals should be preceded by pogroms against adulterers. This would help to make Christian attacks (verbal, legislative or physical) on homosexuals and homosexuality seem less like cherry picking, bigoted hypocrisy.

That is if he has the courage to speak out against the Ugandan policy at all.

___

Jesus condemned adulterers & never mentioned homosexuals

Strange how many Christians disagree with Jesus in this

___

There’s an 8 lane freeway now to the summit of Mt Everest

The pallid house
the pallid tree
the pallid river
the dead bumblebee

Within deep buildings we celebrate
culminations deferred
In the Democratic Republic of Crimson
Delights for example we defer
disentanglement from Leopold’s way
all except the women and children

They insult our culture by running
they hope towards compassion
but men conserve men preserve
our traditions the manly fashion and please
ignore that bag of blood and bones
(there’s always one) who says “not all
men behave that way”; she’s right of course
but enough of us on earth there are to bind us
all to the holy book legacy of man’s supremacy

Open your legs bitch and carry that wait
Afghanistan, Yemen, Congo, Saudi,
Sudan, Pakistan, Kansas, Iran and Vatican
City show the way; some with
sophistication some with a more robust
style of play; in any event it’s a wonderful life
it’s a beautiful day safe in the knowledge that
the really holy books say it’s all your fault
from almost the first “let us pray”

So, come kiss me Kate, admire my rapé
welcome the thrust of My Lai thus avoiding
the crush of ungrateful women crowding
hell’s fiery gateway
___

A girl provoked by the falling pound

The tree has not entered my hands
nor has the sap ascended my arms
The tree has not grown in my breast
neither downward nor upward ingress
The branches do not grow out of me
like arms. I have arms. Can you not see?

Tree I am not _ moss I am not
nor am I violets with wind above them.
A child I maybe. A folly indeed
to the world is your fade-away vertebrae.

I am a woman
You will never have courage enough
to see
me
so the world continues subject
to your patronizing poesy
___

^{( provocateur "A Girl" by Ezra Pound )}
___

failing to make it large

^{(in an enlightened society)}

Clive Davis
the legendary record producer and guiding light
in the music industry, told me I should put more
sex

in my songs if I wanted to be big in the business.
I thought about that
and not so long after wrote a little
something with

a lyric about how I’d done it with a seventeen
stone (two hundred and thirty eight pounds)
rugby player

in my TR6
two seater sports car with his legs
on my shoulders, love and hunger in our hearts

just think about that
if I’d sent it to Clive back in ’75
everything could have been different
___

mirror mirror under used

is
het
ero
sexuality
what you are
what you do
or what you choose?

never to be known

i remember the uprising in starvation
i wasn’t there but these days you don’t have
to have been or even to have read about it

a.u. - my best friend then - a hero at age twelve
had never read an obituary. he’d lived several and
told me some. still, his mother was of interest more

he’d killed a tank but she killed handcuffs.
i remember them all, papa included, as being free
though never having been, how could i tell? you know

how women are like men but taller and men
are nothing like women but constantly trying
to prove it which explains the clamp
                                     the liquid is clear
by the naked eye but to nature’s greater vision
it’s murky, dressed in history and mostly dead
and bursting with life

Dumbledore : Setting an example for children

"If you don’t want your kids to hear about “deviant” sexual behaviour, stop electing republicans to congress."
Comment No72 Posted by KM in “Blogospheric Reaction to an Outed Wizard”

Also recommended:
No.74 by "Richmond"
No.82 (last para) from "Recording Angel"
No.123 by RZA (not subtle but brought a smile)
No.137 by Franko (now that I know about the goats, I may read the books!)
___

un autre singularitay

be that the glue we seek
if “women are so many things”
be men just “one” or even by the stadium “very few”?

perhaps we just too burro to peak beyond the jock
strap leaving the labour and most o’ the labour to
“the girls”; hey bro

que es nuevo? scuse my greek
please ex por favor
i gotta go out now flex
and ignore
___

Small Balls

A funny thing happened last Saturday night
My partner, my lover, Peter who I’ve loved
For four decades, two thirds of my life,
Had a third stroke

The funny thing was what happened after: I
Wrote several letters about it, one to the Pope,
Hoping for hope and some words of wisdom
But he let me down as all he could write was
Sex, sex, sex and sex

Akinola, the Archbishop leader of Nigeria’s
Seventeen million Anglicans responded by
Sending me a copy, signed, of his book,
“Rabble rouse your way to power in the third,
First and after-life worlds”

The Archbishop of Canterbury continued to confuse by
Sending twelve hand wringing pages of text
Every third word of which was “lifestyle”

Several hundred American evangelists and right
Wing radio talk show hosts all sent the same brief note
As the Mujahideen and the Mullahs of Iran
“Refer to the letter sent by the pope -
Re: sex”

And the truth showered down like Pompeii pumice
None of those luckless have ever known love
Cannot even approach the word. it’s the only
Conclusion to come to so sad; they deserve
Our pity and compassion
I suppose
And get

Mine and these few helpful words of wisdom:
If they open their hearts love
Might happen to them
But with so little courage
It’s unlikely
___

Nothing personal

kill the dog!
you fucking satyr!
ladies’ man!

sorry girls
it just won’t fly
guess it’s back to

kill the bitch!
you fucking whore!
and nympho!

but don’t get uptight
it’s a free market thing
just democracy you know
the natural economy
the people getting
what the people want
___

Yo mamma

Women be scum
That must be so
Why else do hetero men
Have nothin but contempt for dem

They be nothin but skets ‘n bitches
‘N hoes ‘n slags ‘n slappers fit only
To parade their tits ‘n cunts ‘n butts
Ahangin out or be clothed to invisibility

From sky to floor so contemptible is
Anything femi9 that when miss-
Perceived in a man he be better dead
Killed in the worsest possible way

I guess that’s like in jail the fucker
Remains a red blooded male it only
The raped battyboy fuckee who, allah
Be praised, be a fag

_{Q: What is the judgment on sodomy and lesbianism?}

_{A: Forbidden. Those involved in the act should be punished. In fact, sodomites should be killed in the worst manner possible.
... Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the supreme religious authority of Shiite Iraq (repeatedly praised by Coalition officials for his moderate views).
___}

prosaic

men are dangerous stupid fools
and up till now women and children
have had to put up with it

that women would do better
with the world is unproven but after
three million years of blood

and hypocrisy i reckon
it’s worth a try

better still, if the ruled commenced
improving themselves rather than just
“moving forward” (def: arsewipe language

phrase meaning: maintaining the same
craven behaviour but in a different place)
perhaps the quality of leadership

would improve to the benefit
of the children we bullshit
we’re doing this for

Silliman the Magnificent

Was the greatest king planet earth had ever seen; so great that on earth his kingdom was without borders. He strode the galaxy assured of his wonderosity and was fêted and honoured by other kings on other planets with gifts of stellar soft silks, sparkling jewels and passionate varied safe sex: But his greatest pleasure was the coxless fours (that’s four men in a small boat rowing as if their lives depended upon it) and his dream was to own a team even greater at the event than those demigods of Olympic rowing, Redgrave, Cracknell, Foster and Pinsent

Silliman though had a weeny, weenie, (or possibly weeny weenie) ego failing. Magnificent, he knew he was, greater than “more”, but just to make sure of the certainty of his worth, other men in his kingdom (and that meant all ) had their right arm severed at birth. This presented a problem in planetary sport as competition after competition his sculling four stalwarts would be circling at speed fairly close to the start line while their rivals, revealing magnificent egos in tight fitting bright lycra shorts, ascended the podium, received their gold medals and sprayed pox riven media scum (aren’t they all?) with champagne

Verily i say unto thee, there is a G class planet beset with problems of global proportions; problems of health, prosperity, war, peace, society, starvation and survival itself. These problems demand the potential and attention of the smartest, most intelligent and compassionate minds on the planet. Tragically, by traditions of global denial, fragile ego and self aggrandisement, half of that potential, half of those minds necessary to the solving of these (so far intractable) problems are sidelined, ignored or barred from participation by being locked in an “elevate us by your abasement” /  “know your place” closet marked “women”.

Clearly, that great king Silliman, magnificent as he was, is not alone in cutting his magnificent nose to spite his equally magnificent face. So, dear reader, join me in thanking our lucky stars that we don’t live on a sad, benighted, pathetic, one armed planet like that.

hey, oscar

Whoopi Goldberg asking if Bush
is merely another name for pussy
is pretty insulting to women and also
just a little bit south of the mark

with history gone the whole world is movin on

today
march third
two thousand ‘n six
just chatting she said
it was tough
"we were working like niggers"
day and night

and i looked into her blue eyes
she looked right back
and kept on chatting
matter o fact ‘n friendly no side
she hadn’t noticed
hadn’t heard the word

and leaning against
the whitewashed wall
i kept on listening
‘n kept on leaning
‘n kept on being black

A reminder from a black man to people of colour

To have the state deny
Your ability to love

Is equal to
And perhaps worse

Than having to sit
At the back of the bus

___

plucking hell

"why are women obsessed
with body hair?"

b cos men
ah

so ladies
no need now
to buy

(neither for "substance"
nor "style")
today's "Observer"

pandemic

Kim Howells : “outspoken” - “colourful” -

“maverick” - and worse, “a welsh man”

Rupert's Sky News : as puss filled and virulent

a Murdoch disease as ever

The Assembly notes ...

that domestic violence against women is estimated to kill or seriously injure more women in Europe every year than cancer or road accidents

_{. . . Council of Europe Violence against women in Europe / 15 March 2000 Doc 8667}