....they go in an out of tune', as Virago author Sarah Waters
well observed in in her book 'The Paying Guests'.
Waters was right. Pianos and marriages play many tunes,
and are much subject to warp and weft of life.
What they play is often enhanced
by the vast accompaniment
of our poorly understood role
in serving mother nature.
Today is the day the English celebrate
'failed democratic reform day', when in 1605
a Catholic 'terrorist gang' led by an English mercenary
who had been fighting the (Catholic) Spanish
planted explosives in the cellars of the House of Commons.
The English being the hypocrites they are
they don't know what they are 'celebrating'
that the gunpowder was put under Parliament
or that it was discovered and the plotters arrested
before the reforms it would start could take place.
The English, who like letting off fireworks
whatever the cause. or lack of it,
use this date to 'entertain children'
with bonfires, simple food, and fireworks
neglect their history as if dates and sides,
and old laws and old prejudices, no longer mattered.
Representative democracy is a recent invention
that only arrived with the full franchise in 1928,
and when for the first time MP's were paid a wage in 1937,
thus allowing poorer candidates to stand.
But already the idea was being prepared to be lost
in an amnesiac media where what the news said yesterday
was being prepared to be forgotten by tomorrow.
The new Right Wing populists
want to permanently end
what they call 'virtue signalling',
where when particular newscasters
who have a notable media profile
outside of their place of work
and being over-friendly with the viewer.
I heartily agree, which is why
I want not to see poppies on the chests
of any news presenter this November.
Let us leave official patriotism to royalty
and the new right wing populists;
as if they alone are virtuous, let virtue
be the main reason that they serve us.
By all means give money to the charities
hat support the veterans of the many wars
fought for king and country past,
where we all sought to be civilised
when the battles were over but don't wear a poppy.
Follow the advice of Jesus; 'Do your good deeds in secret'.
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| The biggest winner in the competition to become the next president of the USA will be Capitalism, the only choice left for voters will be which candidate will work with Capitalism better than the others or creatively resist capitalism, for the sake of a sense of community, given how Capitalism operates on individuals. |
That we can trust in when times prove hard.
He made a germophobe 'the leader of the free world'
and left loose a virus that it very hard to stop
for said leader to limit the spread of, to keep afloat
his economic hopes in the year he hoped to be re-elected.
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| Because cleanliness is close to Godliness |
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| And God is close to kitsch, |
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| Both are ubiquitous and about recycling. |
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| Because for William Burroughs (1917-97) when 'Nothing is true [then] everything is permitted' - a phrase which describes to describes the present, and maybe departing, President of the USA who, whatever he does, is going to cast a long shadow. |
