Politician
'Right is wrong and wrong is right, '
The gleeful politician said,
'This is where our policies have led:
It didn't happen overnight,
But now we've achieved what we worked at for so long:
Wrong is right and right is wrong
And Truth is dead.'
poem by John Thorkild Ellison
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A Guide to Eating Meat
Eating a little beef
Could cause a Hindu grief,
Eating too much chicken
Can make a person sicken,
Eating lots of lamb
Is preferable to Spam,
Eating a leg of pork
Won't make the neighbours talk,
But eating Mum and Dad
Is DEFINITELY BAD! !
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Lolita
Little darling, where have you been?
Playing on the village green?
Something hidden in between
Is beautiful and so obscene!
I have to pray to God on high
Before I look you in the eye,
I have to pray to God on high
To let me die, let me die.
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Jade Goody and the Unsung Heroes
One day I went to the Cancer Clinic -
It made me sad, but perhaps I'm a cynic,
I didn't believe what the papers said
Milking emotions about the living dead!
Jade, Jade,
You had it made,
There are millions like you
And they don't get paid! !
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Changing-room Blues
Trying to get yourself dry
And put on your clothes as quickly as possible,
Feeling very shy
And not wanting to expose your genitals,
And avoiding the hungry eye
Of the pervert in the corner,
It'll be a long time before I go swimming again! !
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Unacceptable Behaviour
Words you said
Made something snap inside my head.
Later I hunted you down
And found you in the market place.
We stood there face to face:
I punched you twice -
You doubled up and fell to the ground.
It wasn't very nice
But I think you deserved it.
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A Comment on the Publication Of Tony Blair's Memoirs
Money is no recompense
For human lives lost in a war,
It really doesn't make any sense,
And just what were we fighting for?
The Weapons of Destruction lie
Made many British soldiers die
And thousands of Iraqis too,
And a lot of this comes down to You.
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Lachrymae Christi
I saw your passionate eyes
Lost from the cradle of night,
And I turned away from your tears
That bled in the clear blue sky:
I wanted to run away
Because your body was filled with light,
But I couldn't escape from your arms
When you held me, my Redeemer.
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Lonely Internet Poet Seeks.....
Is there anyone listening?
(I thought I heard voices)
Is there anybody out there?
Or are there no words?
THERE ARE NO WORDS! !
No words,
The blood from stone,
Eyes turned upward sick with fear,
And dead stars wandering briefly in a lost universe.....
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A Letter from the Taliban
We cannot set our daughters free
Like the whores in your Democracy.
If I saw my daughter wearing jeans
I'd shoot her in the thigh -
She's been reading Western magazines
But really she deserves to die.
How deeply we detest
The freedom and the glamour of the West.
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