It Was Fifty Years Ago Today

That this album was released, it has been popular 
ever since. Nobody knows how many times over
it has 'paid for itself' as a recording. Few would want 
to guess how often it is performed live by tribute bands.

Like the subject matter the albums tackles,
the album has passed into myth and legend.

For the creators of the work still working, Nick Mason
Roger Waters, and David Gilmour this has been
problematic-how to create strong new work
and resolve past royalties disputes without
the lawyers who will settle the matter 
getting most of the money?

'If only', Waters Gilmour and Mason might think,
'We had divided the credits better in the  first place.'.
Lyrics; Roger Waters', Sound design Nick Mason
/Roger Waters/Alan Parsons,
all music Water/Gilmour/Mason/Wright,
special writing credit for Clare Torry for her
contribution to 'The Great Gig In the Sky'. 
This would have created more agreement later.   

 

Great Turn Offs Of Our Time (27) The Eternal Enemy

Every so often I hear that my government
'have declared that the organisation
known as (add name here... ) are terrorists'.

What comes next is that the banned group
can only be spoken of in the national press
under the new name that the government
have tarred them with, in a press
where how they are written about
is only on government terms, 
to complete their 'terrorist' status.

After terrorists can't be known
by their chosen name,
or in an otherwise relatively open media
can't speak their own words in their own voice, 
it is but a short hop skip and jump
before the government decide
to make the terrorists permanent
enemies of the state who are never
to be negotiated with, even when
there is win-win political gain to be made. 

The terrorists are now the eternal enemy
and will never be accepted
on their own terms ever again.
Until they no longer matter.  

Palchemy

Is the science of expanding and transforming
 friendships so that they blossom in unexpected ways.

 

Happy Anniversary

This blog started twelve years ago today.

Who knew when it started, 
that the world of which it is apart is still here?

This blog has not been lost in the changes 
that have swept through the world since then,
and I am like every other bloggers and writers,
who for all our advancing years
still write, but we not write for money
we are still writing today.

Here's to longevity, however uncertain it's purpose....   

The Collective Pronoun Of Lack Of Choice

When I was a child there was an 'us'
in which the 'them' mattered more,
and we all knew it and denied it.

There was a 'we' in the crowd
that I had to follow, 

that over-ran me
and left me hollow.

There was 'I' too, but it was one
that I was never allowed to be, 

until long after he could be counted.

Like a lot of other people,
I felt alone as I endured those times,
when who I could have been
remained an unknown unknown.

We are many, and we all anonymous survivors.

Great Turn Offs Of Our Time (26)

Whenever I read the word 'iconic'
in a secular context, as applied to photographs
or of a now famous artist, I often wonder
about the phrase that 'iconic' has replaced,
that should have been used instead. 

'Oversold' perhaps, 'over-hyped', or
'On which the public have been force-fed
the myth for so long that now every attempt
at debunking those myths reinforces them.'.  

The Wrong Optimism

The affirmation of cynicism,
because the cynic proved right,
is surely all the more dispiriting
to the majority who in their passivity
believed in better for what proved to be
the absence of clear reason.