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Something to keep in mind

2016/11/04 — Leave a comment

In 1987, The Style Council released their third studio album, The Cost of Loving.

The album’s fourth song, ‘Fairy Tales’, is sung using feminine pronouns—clearly referring to Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister of the UK—but the first verse of the lyrics is printed as follows:

The giant towers over all
But from close distance he don’t seem that big at all
In fact he’s no more than you or I
Though we give him far more power than his size

(4 November 2016)

The real New World Order (a poem)

2015/11/20 — Leave a comment

I am Jack’s weakened resolve
Confronted with the world’s wickedness
I am unable to respond with anything more than ambivalence
while the pressure builds

I use terms I don’t understand
to ameliorate the crisis
Fascists make their stances clear
the joke doesn’t go over so well
among the already skeptical

But poll numbers trump logic
whether or not they justify the means
The collective voices turn into a wash
drowning out the past
to drag us around the bends

Where hypocrisy becomes policy
refugees will find no refuge
and denial of our common history
will become our collective flaw
as we all go down together

I am Jack’s bitter defeat…

(20 November 2015)

Election Day Redux: State of the Union

2014/11/04 — Leave a comment

Re-posting this poem from April 2013 (but with the edits I later made for Journalism) for Election Day. The original post can be found here.

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