#2142 - rage maintenance

 

2142

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11.xi.25

rage maintenance

with practical examples

a rant at the Sign of the Drover’s Dog

 

 

and at the eleventh hour

on the half ton, lest forgetting

 

how it was out of the white sliced days

and risen from the grave of old Pig Iron

(though of course he was still alive

… such was the magic of Ming)

 

rage!

that the will of the people could be uptoffed

that the people could be talked into going along

 

rage against the born to rule

and life not meant to be …

the nabob! and that chin!

(though later Mal will weep

and do good deeds)

 

still rage!

 

against the idle chatter

the casual racism

the smugness of the pure merino

rage against the invader

the comfortable myths

an empty land delusion

the self-exoneration of winners

 

the thousand distractions

the crocodile tears

 

rage against the great pretending

the so called level field

Coles Woollies Pepsi Coke mindmuck

your choice of the same old burger

the hyperprocessed chicken cruel shrinkflation

 

rage for poor Ned and see life’s such

 

rage against the apocrypha

 

rage against the fumes, the oil  

rage against the burning

 

all these parties of capital

of fully employed in fucking the planet

 

rage against the hate, the othering

misogyny

guns and knives

untaxed profits

 

rage against growth – the viral assumption

 

rage against the anti-vaxers

kick them in the head

against sovereign citizens

rage against the NRA

against Poodle Pine and his weapons wet dream

 

rage against callous unconcern

the entitled smug

the CEOs, vice-chancellors

all the fifity five times the average pay

 

the scumtop rise

the septic alliances

 

submarines that never were nor ever will be

 

the feral cats and mogs domestic

the hundreds and hundreds they kill each year

 

rage against microplastics

some macro too

 

rage against religion

and every form of child abuse

make the buggers pay tax

 

rage against the rising tide

the temperature going up

 

rage against coal and all the other fossils

rage against old growth logging

rage against the saw

 

against the storm, hurricane, the inferno

against the makers of hell here on earth  

 

rage against Pauline and Gina and Clive

the ghosts of Jo and Flo, their peanuts and their scones

 

rage against our great and powerful bully

rage against Trump and the conga line

all the MAGA muck

America going down the gurgler

rage against Hamas, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi

rage against all the sick puppies

 

rage against the nation idea

rage against the dollar

against the state

 

at the going down of the sun

when they smash all the windows

rage against the Nazis, then and now

rage against every little fascism

hailing us home

 

rage against the CIA, KGB, Mossad, Stasi

 

all their specters and the haunt up

 

the war to start all next wars

rage against Churchill’s Galipoli

 

the king in his counting house

 

rage against Atilla, Caligula, Pol Pot

Gadaffi, rage against 9/11

Osama bin and Saddam Hussein

rage against Bush 1 and Bush 2

 

all these graves we dig ourselves

 

rage against tragedy

rage against farce

 

rebel against extinction

 

why don’t we do it in the road?

remember thesis 11!

 

greed is full employment

 

it still goes all night

did you know it was once ‘…till you puke’

 

rage against rage

and hope against hope

 

against the abdication of mind for dogma

 

and some are thirsty for the truth

some hunger for justice too

 

the light on the hill

it might have been a UFO

 

turned out min min

a mirage like the workers’ paradise

 

well may we say it’s time

it’s a minute to midnight again

 

remember Brecht –

if you don’t stand up for yourself

you go down

 

line your ducks up

let them roost

we’ll see when the cows come home