MoreThoughts On The Times

O Ares

Heil Ares*
God of hostility
See how they worship your slaughter
Your callous, unfeeling indifference to life
These aloof, ravening figureheads
Who lead two powerful nations to war today
Into inequitable battlefields
One who worships a hill
The other a fake genius made rich by his nonsense
Just look at what they coordinate and choreograph
The sorrow of death
For children
The innocent elderly
Non combative journalists
Vulnerable hospital staff and patients
Other benign civilians who flee to their own demise
O war
It is a deadly thing
Dreaded from Pole to Pole
Why then at this troubled time is it raging?
Aha! That is the question
The answer involves power and greed
War is a lucrative business
Far more profitable than love of mankind
The winner expands and demands
The vanquished is a new market for hostile industry
The war dead are losers and suckers says Creon
What will his answer be when he is ultimately tried?
Aha! It’s obvious:
“I’m gonna plead the fifth.”

*Ares, son of Zeus and Hera, was the ancient Greek god of war. He was a brutal figure, representing the chaos and massacres of hostility.

Machiavelli Lives On

Listen to their deceptive sermonising
We must return to our true values
To what we stand for
Individual freedom
Free enterprise
Small government
Lower taxes
Private sector initiative
Strengthened family units
Reduced bureaucratic interference
And reward for personal effort
What a load of detritus!
Free enterprise
Let the rich triumph
And the poor and needy suffer in silence
Small government
Privatise everything
To favour chosen entrepreneurs
Lower taxes
Reduce welfare policy and favour big business
Private sector initiative
Let neocons cut each other’s throats
Strengthen family units
Be sure women are paid less
Reduce bureaucratic interference
Give military and industrial complex free reign
Reward for personal effort
Lionise ruthless and successful tycoons
So there it is
The blather disguised as stratagem
No wonder Socrates despised democracy

ONE ASIAN

Just look at them
What a teeming herd of new followers
Rebels beguiled by the Free Beer and Pizza Party
Or better still the Order and Security Party
A vast crowd hungry for pie in the fake sky
How can this be?
Why?
It’s actually a kleptocracy in the offing
A plutocrat is at it again
Favouring and promoting a simple-minded puppet
Leader of another Know-nothing Party
Towards political success
She is such a nonentity
Getting attention with racist slurs
Promises without evidence
Of better lives for her herd
Freedom from climate science findings
Brushing aside fire and flood and drought
Promotion of coal and gas industries
And love of the world’s most powerful Big Brother
Ah yes
Things are falling into place for apparent triumph
Look at them
Flaunting their uniforms of hollowness
Cheering her success with the Parliament of Fools
Marching in the street like geese to the slaughter
Where is this heading?
What is the destiny of this vociferous crowd?
Why it’s disaster
Chaos and elimination
You will confirm this completely when
You pay strict attention just to one Asian

Eris Lives Again

“Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred”
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” Alfred Lord Tennyson

Eris** lives again
That is the only way to judge the current war
And that’s what this poem was created for
Into the valleys of death fell the drones
Carnage for which no deed atones
Children in their battered school
Journalists killed against every rule
Paramedics slaughtered without compassion
While the Big Boss rejoices with artful passion
Listen to his balderdash that will not cease
This from a pretender who promised peace
And what of his ally obsessed with the killing
Whose every dark deed implies that he’s willing?
What of these two, yes what is the reality?
Why it’s clearly a result of their split personality
They preach their own virtue to proclaim their sanity
But all that they do is bring pain to humanity
Every war is a cursed thing
But the villains with cunning have the trumpets sing
The media can only tell the partial truth
While the leaders’ henchmen stay cruelly aloof
What is the reason for this deadly War?
What are these hawkish fools fighting for?
Why the military-industrial complex says go
That’s the principal truth you need to know
God’s in his heaven; all’s wrong with the world
And so many will die with a stained flag unfurled

**Eris was the Greek goddess of strife and discord. She was angry, moody and famous for her bloodlust.

A Modern Folk Song

Where have all the halfwits gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the halfwits gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the halfwits gone?
Into politics every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the Members gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the Members gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the Members gone?
Into business every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the tycoons gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the tycoons gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the tycoons gone?
Into cartels every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the cartels gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the cartels gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the cartels gone?
Into syndicates every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the syndicates gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the syndicates gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the syndicates gone?
Into prisons every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the prisoners gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the prisoners gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the prisoners gone?
At last on parole every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the parolees gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the parolees gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the parolees gone?
Back into politics many a one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the Members gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the Members gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the Members gone?
Into golden years every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the elders gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the elders gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the elders gone?
All forgotten every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

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