May 31, 2010
Away (and blog theme)
I’m away in France for two weeks, except zero blogging. Compulsive life-, work- and relationship-destroying blogging and iPhone addiction to resume thereafter.
In the meantime, I’m aware that I’m still supposed to have picked a blog theme tune. Now seems as good a time as any, though I don’t pretend to attain such heights of musical horror as this.
In case you’re interested:
Donald wept through the proceedings.
His tears soaked through the canvas that cloaked his twisted face
And they stained his orange jumpsuit
Where with such rare distinction he once displayed
The evidence of his outstanding contributions to the maintenance of a kingdom come.
But those days are gone.
He’s nothing more than a number on a docket thick
With shareholders, engineers, PR firms, politicians: war-profiteers.
“How the fuck did I end up here?
This just isn’t fair.
Ain’t no place for a millionaire”.
He searches for the words to stop this table in mid-turn,
Like “we are but old men”
And “we only did what we were told”.
But the laughter from the gallery drowns out these vestiges
Of a profession’s oldest defense.
“The court will direct the record to reflect
Compliments from the bench;
You sir, are central casting’s crowning achievement.
And for your outstanding performance in a comedic role,
I’d like to dedicate the findings of the jury to the dead”.
But how can one man ever repay a debt so appalling?
Can’t gouge 10,000 eyes from a single head so I
Think we should observe a sentence that will serve
To satisfy both a sense of function and poetry:
So you will spend the rest
Of your days drenched in sweat,
With your face drawn in a rictus of terror as you remove
Another buried land mine fuse.
Meanwhile, 100 yards back
Behind the sandbags,
A legless foreman pulls the trigger on a red megaphone.
Squelching feedback.
Drunken laughter.
Broken English.
His dead daughter’s picture.
Time and tide,
No one can anticipate the inevitable waves of change.
Ste For Sure said,
May 31, 2010 at 10:59 am
That song gives me goose-bumps all over at the end.
Franlydie said,
May 31, 2010 at 7:19 pm
“except zero blogging” did you mean EXPECT zero blogging? :-)