Labi Siffre - Into The Light

The Never Ending Story

He is distressed to the point of agony

We try to comfort him with food and drink

and a soft bed for the night but

he cannot sleep and refuses to eat or drink

He says he lives in a country where

the people would rather pray

than reason

rather kill or die

than think or admit

they could be wrong

He'd seek asylum in another land

he says

but the lazy diseases, faith and belief,

are a global pandemic more infectious

and deadlier

than any Covid variant

 

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The Evening Of The Day Jo Cox Died

"Britain first"
"God is great"
Patriotism
Theism
Scoundrels
Refuge

Penultimate
Ultimate
Radical? No.
Old as a lack of
Courage

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Muhammed Ali - Farewell

Farewell Muhammed Ali
You chose your name
And label

Despite white cowardice
You stung like a bee, and
Encouraged me
To be Me

Thank you
Muhammed Ali

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What The World and Homo Sapiens (humankind / hu-woman-kind) Needs

In these serious times we need folks striving to build on what we know rather than an overwhelming majority hiding behind what they believe.

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God Is The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel

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ONLY GOD DESERVES HELL

Politics and Religion?

It is a moral duty to oppose
Philosophy that condemns without evidence
Of the God it wields as a political weapon
Religion is Politics

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Discomforting Truths Nº 349

War here is endless
And we have learned
Having people to hate
And killing them makes
Us feel superior
In control
We have the power
To Rape
Mutilate
Dictate
War
Has been
And is
Good
For us
Why would we stop
We will not
Stop

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Critical Thinking

 

(my title : cartoon by Joel Pett)
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A Response To The Fight Over Reproductive Rights

“Until men are bound to, determined to and required by law to share equally in the personal, intimate, care and nurturing of their children yes, I believe women have the inalienable right of self-determination in matters of reproduction until the moment before birth.

Without that equality of responsibility and equality in the financial, career and life impact that childbirth brings, I see no reason why men deserve a voice in this.”

. . . Labi Siffre

The Price Of Brief Lifespans

Our present is the past recycled

Our disasters are second hand

Our fashions though louder are merely awesome

Only our adjectives change

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In a World of Heroes Martyrs & Decency

To improvise relevance
When you’ve lost interest in, or faith in,
Or hope for your species

Self-named with no sense of irony
“Wise man”, Homo Sapiens is problematic
Except, today the news

News of the death of a precious fluorescence
In a dull spread opacity of near stagnant water
The death of Vaclav Havel, playwright,

Political prisoner constantly caused with kindness
To lead, of necessity not profession, no place-man,
In deed the right man in place

On the body politic there’s less
Than a hand space for such, and seconds only
Room for any to make a scratch; what good

To scratch water? Still, the memory of a hot bath
Mid hypothermic death is mockery and comfort
Besting mockery alone; screw that

Push hope aside; resolve to die standing
A living fluorescence
If only for the sense of it
The loss of it
The will of it

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