POETRY

We have become a petition nation

An abbreviated abomination

Every other day

I am asked to put my name to

…

“SO AND SO WILL BE STONED TO DEATH IN THE NEXT FEW DAYSFOR ACTS INCOMPATIBLE WITH MORAL CHASTITYSO AND SO WILL BE HUNG FOR CORRUPTING THE EARTH

AND SO AND SO HAS BEEN DETAINED AND NOT HEARD FROM IN 3 WEEKS”



ACT NOW!

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SEE?

YOUR MONITOR SCREEN WILL NOT SAVE YOU



You

who watch the boob tube

You tube

Spectators

Hands in your pockets

While you listen to her

Wail and wail and Veil

And you the unfairer sex

In between your legs

Your tail

Your tail

Your tail



I curse your cursors

That write letters to murderers

Your excellencies

Who stand for elections

As loyal oppositions

“It is a semi democracy”

Complete and replete

With mass unmarked graves

Paved over with glass

And steel politicide



These are our stages

With fists unraised

Looking to where the skies are dotted

With bobbing listless heads

And colourful cranes



So

Keeps your cells to yourselves

We now know how to tie a mean knot

And how to hand weave an unforgiving god

We have our own industry of death

And no longer need to look to your celluloid screens

Or Casablanca dreams

We have our own

eroded canvasses

Sprayed with stories that

fiction could never do justice



and still...