#70 - what are the odds?

10.3.20
70

what are the odds?

a mild version

take death for instance

people get through it

or the fires –

ignore them, they go away

soon winter and you’ll want one anyhow

but I like a little death

makes me the Renaissance man

not for me the flood

I’m on a hill

death to … who is it this time?

…someone with exclamation mark

mutter a prayer and they’re gone

that camp over

call it yonder

I dunno

the barbed wire

and the surgical masks

nobody knows anybody there

note hospital odour

and shovel all the bones in

got to keep on rollin’

I have heard

only the weak will succumb

only the compromised

only the poor will suffer such fates

a necessary cycle

(read Malthus)

if not now then

it’s only by humiliation

down the hatch

the school with no pants you once dreamt

and come to fist there

honest tussle

someone’s got to go down

think Manus, Nauru, Guantanamo

just a little sting

consider an inoculation

hot

but fever in a good way

in any case

as so often happens

gone you won’t feel a thing

you can buy a lot with one death though

depends whose of course

still here!

what doesn’t kill me makes up for lost time

I go up and down with the markets

only if it’s meant to be

a little dose perks up

some superstitious say ‘God’s will’

be good and you can be with Him

carry on with the conversation

tied it to the wounded beast

but might pull through

lick mine

have some gel, a wipe

wash in the webbing

both sides of your hands

money takes a little rest

and now with rain we’re laughing

but can’t afford a holiday

maybe just wait for the bounce

only the workless

the unqualified

those not in a fund or a union

only the down hearts, the hopeless-friendless

only the undeserving

if I say gypsies, jews, poofs

will that help?

only the blacks and slopes and slants

only we endorse

it’s spring around the corner

and here are tomorrow’s belongings

possession being nine tenths

the rallies before and later we’ll sing

now we must all build the machine

pull patriotically

gather ye rolls

and empty the aisles

I love that ‘get what they deserve’

you could almost vote for the thing

can you think of a name for this doctrine?

remind you of anything yet?

what are the odds?

do you see where we’re going with this?