Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
putting a face on
can't hide what happens beneath
St. Louis' broken heart
~
n.b. In a city with many elegantly carved superstructures that are all boarded up, this building in the city centre has been cleverly painted to look as if it has a facade carved from stone. It is merely make up that is beginning to flake off. It is initially impressive, but like The Arch, it’s just a hollow sham.
CLP 27/09/2022
woman pulls on rope
each fourth second of this hour
toll echoes through gorge
that night, drunks in street
try out new anthem for size
irreverent laughs
~
n.b. Since the collapse of the English Revolution in 1660, the wealthiest landowners have firmly stuck together to ensure they get to choose the head of state. There is no likelihood of another civil war, (literally or figuratively), between competing groups of landowners in the UK ever again.
Scottish, Dutch and German aristocrats have been drafted into the post since 1603 when the Welsh Tudor family, (who seized power with the help of French allies in 1485) ran out of offspring.
Therefore, it could be argued that the late queen’s greatest achievement was to have four children, who have had children of their own, thereby ensuring very little will change in how the UK is run and by whom for a few generations yet.
The people of the UK get to vote for the servants of the crown, but the monarchy, (this iteration descended from an obscure Hanoverian protestant family of aristocrats invited to take on the throne in 1714), keeps the jewellery and ensures that the keys to much needed change remain at arm’s length.
n.n.b. The gorge referred to above is the Ironbridge gorge, one day likely to be identified as the original source of human-driven climate disruption.
n.n.n.b. The new anthem contains the unfamiliar line “God save the king.”
p.s. The people of Ukraine continue fighting for their lives. Day 199.
CLP 10/09/2022
walk on gold paving
countless, not unlimited
transient riches
~
CLP 21/11/2021
battlements, towers
rich gated community
wealth will eat itself
~
CLP 16/11/2021
as our axis tilts
winter encroaches upon us
tightening of belts
~
n.b. Plague Island; taxing the many, openly corrupt, out in the cold.
~
CLP 04/11/2021
taxing the low paid
while laundering millions
tennis with BoJo
~
n.b. It’s wrong. London’s financial machinery is central to money laundering crime world-wide. See the Pandora Papers for more.
CLP 05/10/2021
constant spinning web
silk threads entangle us all
we await spider
~
n.b. Mountains shown are in France…national borders are just lines on maps after all, or mountains, or rivers, or wastelands, or shores.
CLP 28/09/2021
fog patches the lake
fills mountain hollows
crows welcome autumn
and so many sparrows
at café tables
hopping through hedges
on window ledges
living off crumbs
last night
in the marble foyer of La Poste
a street-dirty sleeping bag
heavy with sleeper
this courteous
stable, secure
discreet nation
has many sparrows
~
CLP 24/09/2021
there is nothing that the rich won't do for money Devil's dance partner
~
n.b. pain old as mountains never-ending series.
CLP 24/08/2021
in aching mountains
wait gold, copper, lithium
wealth beyond belief
~
n.b. pain old as mountains never ending series.
n.n.b. Can religious zealotry ever resist mammon? Follow the link to the yellow brick road.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/18/business/afghanistan-lithium-rare-earths-mining/index.html
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