No Sunsets Or Rainbows “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” From the sonnet “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Strange, O so strangeI wantContinue reading “Emotion Recollected”
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Thoughts On Our Troubled Times
All Blood Is Red Immigrants are a blightHated with cruel spiteDescribed with derisionOften sent to prisonBut all blood is red Take your foreigners awayThey bring us dismayAnd are so unlike usDifferences strike usBut all blood is red Note that political tacticianTotally without contritionWho claimed they eat dogs and catsStopping just short of ratsBut all bloodContinue reading “Thoughts On Our Troubled Times”
Some Way-out Definitions
Fascist You will always know himAs you’ll be just below himHe’ll pose as your friendYour troubles to mendPromising reformBeyond the normHe’ll prophesy changeTo rearrangeThe shape of a sham dystopiaThat depends on your myopiaHe will foretellYour relief from HellIf his wisdom you note for himAnd then blindly vote for himHe’ll be ostensibly religiousDeclaring God prestigiousAnd thenContinue reading “Some Way-out Definitions”
A Golden Age: some gimmickry of our times
God Save The King Look at meWow!A new age you can seeNow!I am so very brightAnd my mind is ruthenious*I am always rightAs I am a geniusI persuaded the ignorant mobTo vote me into powerI did such a wondrous jobThat it’s now my victory hourYou can hear the angels singLet the church bells ringFor IContinue reading “A Golden Age: some gimmickry of our times”
Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author 