#494 - imagine a veil of ignorance

 

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imagine a veil of ignorance

brief notes on democracy as lived

 

the ones who cannot speak –

we are asking them to tell in their own words

about the vocal problem

 

the immobile, the limbless

we say ‘get a move on’

 

those who are up for it

must be put down

 

the credulous we feed lies

and they love it

 

armies of urges

salute and obey

 

the drug addled lovelorn

the grieving

by their bootstraps

shall they get over themselves

 

ones with the wrong skin make believe

for them the Disney hail

 

the ones without reason

we are asking for a justification

it’s up to them to join the dots

 

we tell the illiterate

‘fill out the form’

 

sharpen our tongues on pets

 

those joyful, peg by peg down to earth

nor with the sleeping dogs let lie

 

the quick brown fox we’ve skinned

for a triumph

 

and chase a bug around a tree

from scratch we up to itch

from greed these gifts

and from the wild machine

calm order to come

 

expect propensity of dullness

second guess the shames

 

shout at the deaf

and foreign make foe

 

acre it up in asphodel

new subdivision, motza

 

bloody the heart on

‘complicated’, only if it’s not

 

give all the air everywhere

a good smoking

 

love the contradiction

(in any god we trust)

and fight to the death those who’d declare

they are a threat to our way of life!

 

those of fine hunch

mock them out

how artless we must be

look! – no politics!

 

blame the workless for unthinking

blame thinking for the list to-do

 

and the hungry

we have eaten their cake

we have it too

wear their sweat in pants and shirts

in eau de bone

 

for the thirsty

picture champagne

 

a bite the size of the creature

and a can of death in my hand           

 

those who confess

shall inherit our guilt

 

it’s only a little eternity here

 

who loves in my pyjamas lives

build pyramids of luck

 

those without imagination

are put in charge of everything

ask to pretend who we are