Sick Joke, A Poem ?

The joke asks; “What is black and blue and does not like sex”

“The poor little boy locked away in my cupboard”; is the reply

My words contain no truth, have no reality, just dark irony

Much worse is this world of denial and a reality we forget

Whole new dictionaries of synonyms and words redefined

Axis of evil, splinter cells, acts of atrocity and insurgency

Imprisonment without charge, interrogation with immunity

Enemy combatants, prolonged constraint and waterboarding

Terror threat levels raised to severe and we need protecting

Illusionary weapons of mass destruction and the war of lies

Intervention to suppress the terrorists who seek to destabilise

Necessary collateral damage of purest humanitarian motives

Physical, psychological, sexual and religious abuse of captives

Words so far from the truth that meaning needs to be described

Attempted suicide is “manipulative self injurious behaviours”

Actual suicide is “asymmetric warfare committed against us”

When reality is wrong and comprehension is beyond belief

There is a strange human mechanism to laugh with relief

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The joke asks; “What have a penis and a bible got in common”

“Maybe being pushed down your throat by a priest”; is the reply

My words are hollow and from a dark heart comes sarcasm

Much worse is the incomprehension and history we ignore

New descriptions, words appropriated, terminology of spin

Toxic assets, hedge funds, credit derivatives and securitization

Gripped by liquidity restraints, necessary financial deregulation

Quantitative easing, vulture capitalism, and neoliberalism

We are in the midst of a once-in-a century credit tsunami

Troubled Assets Relief Program to save their balance sheets

A bank bailout by the tax payer to protect shareholder assets

Worldwide over a trillion dollars to brace a fiasco of greed

Negative equity, foreclosure and eviction of those in need

Actions of the powerful hidden in spin require clarification

Subprime is “predatory loan-making to the impoverish”

Theft is “eviction of the poor and payment to the rich”

The facts are there and obvious and the blame is social

As we carry on regardless complicit in our own denial

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No sick joke this time as in the current climate its not needed

Open your eyes to injustice and causes required but unheeded

My words are strong, laden with anger and full of criticism

Much worse is apathy, the importance of self over the many

New demographics, socio groupings, condescending jargon

Nimbys, dinks, baby boomers, yuppies and the nuclear family

The necessity of the consumer, and governments of hypocrisy

Regeneration programs, legislative framework and “Democracy”

The lack of resources and a world population that is exploding

False idols and new gods resplendent in the excess of celebrity

Breakdown of society, community and the loss of philanthropy

A corporation controlled media and the manipulation of illusion

Requirements of profit, expansion and workforce mobilisation

The education from birth to glorify individual achievement

Silent in your satisfaction of what you own is attainment

These things are not your dilemma and you remain reticent

Disinterest, egotism and the deceit of “too little too late”

Maybe the most disgusting jokes are the words never said

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Reasoning from the author

Firstly I apologise for the choice of the two “sick jokes”. Yes totally disgusting and I can thank a trawl of the internet and http://www.sickipedia.org/ for that.

I am not sure if you can call it poetry or even if it was meant to be. If it is poetry then it is meant to be read along the lines of a performance form. The three stanza’s are supposed to be compared line by line and the link between war, finance and society is deliberate.

Without doubt attempts are made to hide and misinform and society either becomes disenchanted with obvious truth and lies. Whether apathy is engineered or a natural construct is questionable. “Sick Joke” is a question in itself and it provokes offence and it’s question is to the elements that offend the most.

I believe many of the elements are self explanatory. “Illusionary weapons of mass destruction and the war of lies” most people might have doubts on the intentions of Iraq and Afghanistan. “We are in the midst of a once-in-a century credit tsunami” is an Alan Greenspan quote from a congressional testimony. For anyone aware of financial history it would seem a perverse quote. Currently every decade seems to require a bailout for its various crisis’s of greed.

I would like to end on a note that this is not anti government or state rhetoric. Government should be to protect the people from the powerful and not themselves. Something seems to be lost in modern politics, which I will point a finger at the corporation.

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Thanks

Bretton

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