Wednesday, 4 November 2020

#308 - attending an exorcism from what's a safe distance?

 





5.xi.20

308

attending an exorcism from what’s a safe distance

for the Cretan Liar series

 

casting an ostrakon for or against

 

this long suspicion the world was mad

 

so many vote for the novelty

 

it’s as if they had a choice between still water and fizzy poison

and found it so hard to decide …

everyone’s upset with the outcome

but it’s just where we are

 

little skeletons dance out of the cupboard

cranks and conspiracists

it’s Halloweeen continued

now heavily armed

 

tell the truth and shame…

 

you think of putting the devil in hell

but some of us have read the Decameron

 

here’s Rupert Murdoch commanding the orcs

and what bad teeth they all have

(no insurance)

 

a dance with … whom?

let’s check your card

is that really your signature

and are you who you are?

 

the possible is happening again

it is an expanding circle

not what you think

this must be the work of Kaos

 

must lower the cone of silence now

what’s the etiquette for

stuffing that jinnee back in the bottle?

we’re just finding the lost stopper

it’s somewhere

 

is there a gaol built will hold the arch fiend?

think of Elba always

the ice is under the last circle

here’s Grumpy frozen in forever there

 

it’s a lot like a birth

at the end of the second day of the exorcism

always busy

demons running hither and yon

 

in my best scratchy sherd voice

what oratory!

what tricks!

and rigged!

with somersaults!

chicanery!

too many exclamation marks

 

breathless thing and the heart often stops

 

it’s we’ve just been too nice to these devils

 

take the top off a carrot

see the steam pour out

 

keep saying Santa

keep saying God

 

say communist – it’s worked before

 

could be a long time sleeping this off

 

for perversity, just check out the markets

farce on a tragedy sandwich

 

might never wake up at all

 

did someone mention they’re droppiong like flies?

 

the lie once swallowed

a long time digesting

can give it and give it again

 

the volume’s as high as it goes

 

never even called a priest

 

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ps on the third day a rising

read in it what you will














and here's a companion piece today, from my friend, Robert Antony, in New Jersey

Why vote for Trump 2020?

 

Donald John Trump forty-fifth president

of these United States in you we trust

making America great again, again!

 

bigot pathological liar misogynist loan shark

three time loser racist adulterer real estate

salesman psychopath bankrupt businessman

rapist reality show host vocabulary of a

sixth-grade dropout racketeer most

dangerous man in America schizophrenic

bully IQ of a watermelon mafia boss voice

of a squealing pig moron cheater apprentice

conman selfish cavalier rude heartless jerk

 

I vote for you!

 

lonely divorcees for Trump

steel workers for Trump

soy farmers for Trump

used car salesmen for Trump

bull-shitters for Trump

men with sixth-grade educations for Trump

bus drivers for Trump

macho Latino men for Trump

policemen for Trump

right-to-life mothers for Trump

rednecks for Trump

black CEO’s for Trump

suburban middle-aged housewives for Trump

beef ranchers for Trump

white supremacists for Trump

national guardsmen for Trump

truck drivers for Trump

white evangelists for Trump

gun-slingers for Trump

dead men for Trump

 

                                                     3 November 2020

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