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Objection, Your Honour: Tirtinska
OBJECTION, YOUR HONOUR
Ironic liberty caps put him in the dock here.
Plus a system not quite broken but severely bent.
Climbed a sycamore entranced by the texture, the scent.
Then someone comes down the road. Too late to disappear.
This officer of the law – you see his type worldwide.
Worships petty regulations. (i.e. benighted.)
“I proceeded to caution the accused who replied …”
The constable consulted his notebook, recited
“‘Oh, the colours, the colours,’ he giggled and sighed.”
Now the magistrate’s favourite part, inducing fear.
The power to deal harshly with any miscreant.
“Something you wish to say before I pronounce judgement?”
“Beam me up, Scotty. It’s getting rather hot down here.”
Panacea: Four By Six
PANACEA
Everyone does their best
From their own point of view
Nothing wrong with people
Genocide wouldn’t cure
One Hundred : Four By Six
A Valentine’s Day poem?
Certainly. (Who needs clichés)
ONE HUNDRED
He was seventy-two
While she was twenty-eight.
A round number – Perfect!
Though only they thought that.
Pride And Prejudice: Tanka
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
They said not a word
For not a word need be said
A cloud of silence
Always accompanied them
Others looked on bathed in awe
Relatively Speaking
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
Those who put
The ‘big’ in bigotry
Are those who keep
The ‘small’ in small-minded
Gender Issues
GENDER ISSUES
The suicide decided after all to cross the river.
Styx a stone’s throw away – Too many thrown stones.
Crossed over now into who knows what or where. Into
who knows beneath all that faith and charity after all?
Cruelly abandoned by us all; backed up into corners.
All those accusatory closed doors, shuttered windows.
Words not the sole way to show a soul’s distress though.
Tiny gestures, reactions, dress choice speak volumes;
sightlessness alive and well among the seeing.
The suicide decided to cross the river.
(Styx a stone’s throw away after all.)
Many too many thrown stones.
And words not the sole way
to show a soul’s distress.
Odd Bedfellows (27a)
Nov 27
Posted by Ben Naga
ODD BEDFELLOWS
That we find
Unforgivable
In others
Is tied to
That which we find in ourselves
Indispensible
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Shadorma November
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