War By Proxy
War by Proxy
France has a foreign legion
often deployed to the dirty work in Africa
USA too has a foreign legion...NATO,
deployed to do ditto in Africa.
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Democracy Today And Tomorrow
Democracy Today
Freedom of speech
The poor yell into a void
The rich get a TV station.
Privatizations
Your county’s natural assets
Given to the mighty
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Simplified (moral)
Simplified (Moral)
When the good guys
Behaves like the bad guys
The bad ones have won.
Because:
We have become like them
And we have lost
Our moral compass.
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Tenderness
Tenderness
Her gentle shadow,
modest
as she was,
walked in front
of her.
And now that
she has gone her
shadow
lives in my mind
as a soothing whisper.
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Lament 2
Lament
Bucolic village
Full of romantic cobble stones
Fucking hard to walk on
When your feet are old
And you need slippers and carpets
And not bogus rustic charm
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The Mare
The Mare.
Lonely horse
On a misty spring field
It neighed
Came to the fence
I stroked its damp flank
It began grazing
But looked up to see if
I was still there
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Astronomy
Astronomy
Big moon absorbed my home
Illustrious voyage through the night
Towards dawn it gently let me go
Without commas and full stops
But now I have to shave trice a day
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The Sales
The Sales
When I see people
Queuing
For eight hours
To buy something they don’t
Really need
I lose faith in humanity
To be old
Is a death sentence
One can’t repeal
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Blindness
Blindness.
While Moslems are
Discriminated in Europe
Christians are killed
In Africa
Their deaths are a byline
In a liberal world
That doesn’t see
The forest for the trees.
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A Poem
Poem
Mighty Amazon flood
Flows strongly towards the sea
Pauses by the delta
But now it is all too late
Reduced to melancholy
Sweet water blending with sea
And history is forgotten
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