Yet More Serious Thoughts

Lies For Sale

How cunning they are
Exploiting human weakness for profit
So images of people guzzling fleshy food
Are visible often
To stir your taste buds and make you spend
Or flashy cars are seen endlessly
Speeding
To promote a sale for the wrong reasons
Or an attractive woman
Offers a drive to an eligible male
And sexuality leads to a purchase
Or Simple Simon gets your attention
By doing something stupid or naive
To foster a deal
Or visual gimmickry batters your eyes
To create the illusion of magical cleanliness
That inspires your investment
Or celebrities are paid vast sums
To pretend they like a product
So we lapdogs will then invest in it
Or conspicuous crowds of fake enthusiasts
Play-act
And all they do is shout a lie to make you buy
Or others exploit the Superman illusion
With counterfeit images of power
To sell petrol
Thus we build unreal visual castles in the air
Utopian deception
To sell mundanity disguised as gold
There you are
Some of the ways the invisible hand
Stirs the hallowed brew of cost effectiveness
Such is life these days
Those are but some of the ways
The market roars
The marketeer triumphs
And life goes on as the deceivers prescribe

Arrant Rogue

Look at you
You have a way with words that persuades non thinkers
You lie constantly, not innocent fibs
But sweeping momentous disturbing untruths
That make your responsive obeisant flock of followers
Love you to the level of reverence
Your way with violence too makes you a deadly iconoclast
An ugly nonconformist
Who leads people astray assiduously for his own benefit
How then do you do this?
Let us count the ways
You are funded by corporations to deny global warming
You exploit racism by decrying immigration
You break the law constantly to increase your profits
You use courtrooms as venues for your own propaganda
You favour politically your own absolute rule
You have a distorted view of history
You wave your arms and clap yourself constantly in public
You imprison children inhumanely for long periods
You reduce or eliminate independent science advisory panels
You refuse assiduously to accept political defeat
You treat international diplomacy with utter contempt
There
Let that suffice for now
Such follies link your leadership to despair
Bring political mores to the edge of a cliff
At the foot of that cliff is dictatorship
Confusion
And chaos for all humanity
So let us chart a new course
Treat roguery with the contempt it deserves
Be alert for integrity
And cast any arrant rogue
Away, away, away
To the other side of awareness

The Climate Curse Still Lingers

Enough!
The climate curse still lingers
Greedy neocon birds of prey still rule the roost
Still supported obeisantly by a government they fund
Cars still convert oxygen into greenhouse gases
Coal still finds a market for a mogul to exploit
Gas is still exported for exorbitant profit
Oil still shapes the destiny of power hungry nations
Still science knocks on many doors and finds no one at home
So loudly consequences scream, seeking our attention
And what then are the outcomes that we need to mention?
Well
Floods have become destructive events again and again and again
Heat waves condemn many old folk to an early grave
Cosmic fires pervade the earth, killing too many we try to save
Storms cause dire destruction and cast aside resistance
Damaged roads and bridges hinder normal existence
Droughts now happen frequently as the rain finds another place
Ground level ozone vapours still threaten the human race
Depression is more common today with post traumatic stress
Famines now grow in number to add to the duress
Heating the sea will bring mercury into the food we eat
Starvation lingers on many doorsteps because of the heat
So wake up now you miscreants who still promote disaster
You must act now so the marketeer will not be our master
Bring wisdom into the lives you harm
Think things through to cast aside alarm
The heat is on and the chance is gone to disregard the analysis
Deniers now will be suffering from a form of mental paralysis
Do it now, discard those mindless ways
So you can comment truthfully on the loveliest of days

Dictator

Well now, just look at you
Mouthing lies and patriotism as a Fascist might
What do you think you are?
The ruler of this land?
Not a bit of it
You are a self promoting wastrel
A liar who defies the law with absolute venom
A nonentity disguised as a significant somebody
A tyrant obsessed with your own grab for power
You persuade people effectively by appealing to their darker nature
Tell tales that appeal to non thinkers
Curse your opponents to bring them into disrepute
With fables and emotional non sequiturs
Your voice is heard because of the colluding media
That love you like a long lost brother
Or rather like a spoilt brat
So
You weave your tapestry of unreality
Your praise of evil and your eulogy of self promotion
Your defiance of valid legal procedures
Your fake claims of injustice directed towards you
Your allegiance drawn from a throng of mindless followers
And your nauseous criminal history about to be exposed
Now the wheels of justice are really turning
Misdeeds have consequences that will catch up with you
Although for you crime pays, a day of judgement is approaching
Your assault on the law is about to fall by the wayside
Your true nature is about to be reckoned with
Justice awaits you
And the knives it wields are very sharp
Your body is about to be exhumed from the graveyard of deceit
And cremated by the fires of fair play
So give the world now the peace it deserves
The one gift you have left to bestow upon us
Your silence

The Sword Of Justice

How dare you; you can’t do that
Treat the law, its judges, and its juries with contempt
Comment aloud during a court session
Abuse the officers of the judicature
And your legal opponents
Then rise and leave with anger amidst the procedures
The law is a sacred thing
Vital to every member of every society
If justice is despised and inoperative at any time
Injustice sponsored by tyranny is but a small step away
Fascism, a reign of terror, totalitarianism, dictatorship
Are possible perils when the law is treated with disrespect
So change your ways you mindless self-promoting dullard
Abandon your disobedience, your waywardness, your defiance
Your ways that endanger the future of mankind
Learn the lessons taught by the ages
Appropriate respect for the timeless sword of justice
The vital icon of civilisation
The common man’s only defence against despotism
The one safeguard for all against enslavement
So change you ways now
Listen to the voice of reason
Follow the advice of the time aware
Who have seen the law grow in strength and significance
Through all the years that history records
If you fail; if you continue your disobedient follies
That sword will smite you asunder
Dismember your disobedient selfish body
Into a thousand pieces of insignificance
And cast them into a chasm of forgotten memories
Your life’s causes will be ended
Your name will be sullied
Your business will be bankrupt
Your politics will shrivel into voteless non existence
And above all else
The law we must respect
Will not be contaminated by your non sequiturs
Away with you then, now
Revise yourself
Or remain forever silent

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