Tuesday, October 28, 2008

State of the World

Day by day I read articles, news sites, blogs with ever growing concern, It's like the whole world is sliding into a dark age of anti-intellectualism, vulgarism and religious hatred, there are some things I simply cannot comprehend, for instance the hindus with there really laid-back religion are committing atrocities against christians or the amount of lies the american public can consume like sheep from their so called leaders, the orvelian surveillance state style Britain has adopted, the chinese style internet censorship in Australia all of them are pointing to the wrong direction ... sad times are ahead .... I do not see any good outcome, any solution ...

The Fletcher Memorial Home (Waters)

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.

And they can appear to themselves every day
On closed circuit T.V.
To make sure they're still real.
It's the only connection they feel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
"Hello Maggie!"
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
"Scusi dov'รจ il bar?"
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
"Who's the bald chap?"
"Good-bye!"
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.

Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?
They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead.

Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.

Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.

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