Calendars Can Change

As the public reliant on the internet,
in the liberal west are discovering,
that they can't find black history month
and gay history month online, when both
were fixed to appear in February, then anyone
who is interested in none-white minority histories
have to compose their own and celebrate them
in the real world, after Google have erased
the new liberal issues calendar at a stroke.

But Christians have known about their calendar
a/k/a the liturgical year, lapsing out of public awareness
since Victorian times. Likewise the calendars
and the history and liturgy of the Islam and Judaism
are 'private affairs', that the media need not be troubled with.   

With the rise of Godless Capitalism no moment is sacred:
Every day is a sale day where the public are taught to ignore
how much they live in debts that they will never pay off,   
where life has no beginning, no meaning, and no sense of loss when it ends. 

My religion, and my calendar, used to be BBC speech radio,
which I used to listen to by appointment via the schedules
which timed my world. There my 'listen again' feature
was the cassette tapes that I made of programmes
to share with friends, and think I would value in future.

I didn't know then that taping would die as a habit,
supplanted by sharing MP3 files, long before
I wanted to live in comforting and reliable past.