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a political type poem

xmascleanlovexmascleanlove Posts: 55
edited February 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
why not burn every flag
paint ourselves ash grey
no color
no country
will ever wash this brain

majority vote
creeps in tax form shadows
giving us paper cuts

fuck your medals
fuck your badge

dark skin holds in red blood
just as well as light skin does

please feel free
to keep your beliefs
keep them far away from me
please feel free
to keep your beliefs
keep them far away from me
...repeat...
if you're a pot smoker and you don't own a ukulele you're fuckin up...but then once you get a ukulele you might end up moving to a guitar because its a gateway instrument you know
~ EV 6/25/03
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  • savannah66savannah66 Posts: 65
    yeah :)

    is this a song?
    I can almost hear the music...

    I tire of politics frequently, even though I follow the news vehemently. I guess I'm more interested in the civil rights angle, and there is much to be frightened of, of late. I tire of the circus of beliefs thrust at me in the news...

    thanks. I liked it.
  • tracingdaisiestracingdaisies Posts: 40
    that last part is like a song...i enjoyed this. thanks.

    maybe someday pj will write a 'let's stop blowing up the middle east' song. :)
    I wish I was a Democrat
    One that had a chance to win
    I wish I was a Republican
    But would I be a human being?
    --from 'Wishlist,' 7/6/03, Philadelphia

    http://www.livejournal.com/users/tracingdaisies
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Originally posted by xmascleanlove
    why not burn every flag
    paint ourselves ash grey
    no color
    no country
    will ever wash this brain

    majority vote
    creeps in tax form shadows
    giving us paper cuts

    fuck your medals
    fuck your badge

    dark skin holds in red blood
    just as well as light skin does

    please feel free
    to keep your beliefs
    keep them far away from me
    please feel free
    to keep your beliefs
    keep them far away from me
    ...repeat...

    This balances artistic autonomy and political commitment well. That's no mean feat. Brecht didn't often pull it off.
  • mulacmulac Posts: 97
    yeah this sounds like a cool lyric

    really cool, i would like to hear this to a song


    it also sums up my current dissafection with politics at the moment


    i just can't be fucked caring
    the passenger is life
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Originally posted by mulac
    yeah this sounds like a cool lyric

    my current disaffection with politics at the moment


    I'm hearing you loud and clear, mulac. Often poetry can be more political than "politics" because it regards the politics of the personal, if you get my drift.
  • orig_bise2postorig_bise2post Posts: 193
    that last part was really cool... although i disagree with it completely... without free speech, i don't think we can evolve as a society. but none-the-less the lyrical content is really fuckin cool
    "Nobody is ever promised tomorrow. Increase the peace."
    ~Juan Azize
  • orig_bise2postorig_bise2post Posts: 193
    bump for people who haven't read it.
    "Nobody is ever promised tomorrow. Increase the peace."
    ~Juan Azize
  • EvilToasterElfEvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
    It's interesting, despite all the faults of our education system domestically - not you Carrots you guys have all sorts of different problems - that one of the unmitigated commitments is that of individuality

    In most of the other empires of history education was focused on civic duty and the sustaining of the empire - country - but this drive has been replaced by unflagging individuality - and don't get into the conformist pop culture bla bla argument - it's been hacked to death - if you ask an 8 year old kid what's more important his happiness or the strength of the United States you know what his answer will be. It seems the control mechanisms are getting a whole lot subtler, It's curious to see what the eventual downside of this overcompensation might be
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