While looking for something else entirely in an old trunk in my garage, I came across the following lines. Written nearly 50 years ago, they struck me as having an oddly contemporary feel.
Beneath the towering concrete thrones
The people creep and crawl
You sense them through the oozing black
That’s seeping through your wall
The darkness slithers like a snake
Between the halls of stone
Your voice in echoes stabs the night
“My God, am I alone?”
That’s when you
Look for the light,
Hope for the light,
Have faith in the light to come.
The stench of corpses chokes the air
And hangs the senses high,
While in their red-brick coffins
The split-level heroes lie.
You’re groping through an endless day
Towards an endless night,
While armies of well-oiled machines
March onward out of sight.
That’s when you
Look for the light,
Hope for the light,
Have faith in the light to come.
The bold blue warriors ignite
The fires they love to hate,
And crying “Law and Order!”
Take another for the State.
The Members of the Parliament
Are eating paper lies,
While sweat soaks through their collars
They all doze – as justice dies.
That’s when you
Look for the light,
Hope for the light,
Have faith in the light to come.
You’re running faster every day
To catch the same old train,
With icy faces staring out
Of every window pane.
The streets are growing metal bars
To keep you in your place,
And every night the sirens wail –
Quickening the pace.
That’s when you
Look for the light,
Hope for the light,
Have faith in the light to come.
Chris Trotter
1973
For some reason it evokes an old blues classic: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee The Midnight Special
National MP who admitted to training Chinese spies retires from politics.
Michelle Boag leaves National Party after leaking patient info to Michael Woodhouse
And then there was Key , English, Bridges and Bennett…and a few sundry others.
Did they leap or were they pushed?
Perhaps the bleak poem of 1973 is showing some light…
Oh, and of course, Walker.
That, was fabulous @ CT.
You, are fabulous.
Evil, can be found in the intellect.
The more clever the evil becomes, the more clever the innocent must become. Knowledge, after all, is born of experience. There in lies the rhurbarb. One’s destined to become that which one hates the most so it’s reckoned.
That’s why; democratic capitalism born of the mandatory vote.
I must be drunk…? When I write gibberish and think it’s wise. Apols. x
As the world turns to custard there is light of a sort because the major source of most of our woes -the rampant consumerism, the faux money system, the faux economic theories, the synthetic ‘food’ that really isn’t food, the anti-science movement, the overheating of the Earth and the collapsing environment etc. is, itself, in the process of collapsing. And it’s collapsing rather quickly
https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Screen%20Shot%202020-07-10%20at%208.20.31%20AM.png?itok=a8_6zaRy
The US reported 63,247 new cases of Covid-19 overnight. Now that is impressive, and gives us cause for hope, even if it represents huge personal tragedy and an awful lot of human misery. Yet collapse has to involve huge amounts of personal tragedy and human misery.
The collapse that is underway is not caused by coronavirus, as such; that has been the puff of wind that has pushed over the house-of-cards political-financial-economic-social arrangements.
The good news is, ‘the elites’ (scumbags at the top of the wealth pyramid) won’t be immune to the consequences of the meltdown, as they push everyone else towards destitution:
‘You Are Now Leaving FantasyLand: The Losses Will Be Taken By Somebody’
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/you-are-now-leaving-fantasyland-losses-will-be-taken-somebody
Keep the borders closed eh.
A far bigger event than what we have experienced lies ahead
Opening the border will just it invite it in and its refugees in numbers we could not control.
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