Aww Shit I have forgotten!
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Monday, 23 June 2008
Forms
They inform and reform and perform for you
They tell you who and how and what to be
For we who believed and for we who noticed
are left behind in a fug of confusion
They tell you who and how and what to be
demanding the shape and size and contours
are left behind in a fug of confusion
Now show ourselves at last to the nation
Demanding the shape and size and contours
delivers to others a sense of comfort as we
now show ourselves at last to the nation
kicking aside the twisted minds.
Delivers to others a sense of comfort
A sense of their self as they imagine in their eyes
kicking aside the twisted minds
That leaves them to cajole and rock in subjugation.
A sense of their self as they imagine in their eyes
is nothing but a child's view of itself
that leaves them to cajole and rock
as they take YOU, your fat, your ugliness to heart.
They tell you who and how and what to be
For we who believed and for we who noticed
are left behind in a fug of confusion
They tell you who and how and what to be
demanding the shape and size and contours
are left behind in a fug of confusion
Now show ourselves at last to the nation
Demanding the shape and size and contours
delivers to others a sense of comfort as we
now show ourselves at last to the nation
kicking aside the twisted minds.
Delivers to others a sense of comfort
A sense of their self as they imagine in their eyes
kicking aside the twisted minds
That leaves them to cajole and rock in subjugation.
A sense of their self as they imagine in their eyes
is nothing but a child's view of itself
that leaves them to cajole and rock
as they take YOU, your fat, your ugliness to heart.
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Bereft of control (over a tree root)
There is no reason
no purpose
no sense.
Only foolishness
a feeling of rage
of intensity
of loss.
There is no reason
to stamp
and to moan
to sweat
and toss
should leave it alone.
There is no reason
obsession takes over
thoughts mingle
with anxiety
and they make
no sense at all.
There is no reason
barring fear
and pain
to mull over the situation
and lose a days life
for it.
There is no reason
to behave like this
to leave your reasoning
to a useless object
that does not matter
in the least.
The reason is
loss
lack
bereft
control.
The reason is
self
gone
choice
missing.
At the mercy
at the warp
at the weft
of Life.
It has taken it out of me.
I am done.
no purpose
no sense.
Only foolishness
a feeling of rage
of intensity
of loss.
There is no reason
to stamp
and to moan
to sweat
and toss
should leave it alone.
There is no reason
obsession takes over
thoughts mingle
with anxiety
and they make
no sense at all.
There is no reason
barring fear
and pain
to mull over the situation
and lose a days life
for it.
There is no reason
to behave like this
to leave your reasoning
to a useless object
that does not matter
in the least.
The reason is
loss
lack
bereft
control.
The reason is
self
gone
choice
missing.
At the mercy
at the warp
at the weft
of Life.
It has taken it out of me.
I am done.
Monday, 16 June 2008
Tell Me
,
Tell me, doctor sir, if you have the time
Tell me, doctor sir, why charge the price you do.
Oh I know, doctor sir, that you have study long and hard
But that was years ago
And I know, doctor sir, that you have many bills to pay.
Tell me, doctor sir, why is it that you are so greedy?
Is it, doctor sir, because you can be?
Oh I know, doctor sir, that there are overheads to consider
But you are one of a select few in this town
who can see a patient right now.
Our Government, doctor sir, pays you a good living
Through our taxes, doctor sir, you are sure of payment.
Tell me, doctor sir, how would it be
If every time you needed help you had to pay
half of your weekly income?
You don't brook any excuses, doctor sir, for not being able to pay
You even charge if the appointment must be broken
No excuses, doctor sir, you say.
Our health is our life, doctor sir, we have no choice in this
But you, doctor sir, have us by the balls.
So, doctor sir, I say to you, when next you need a friend,
Help in putting out the fire in your house
or the collecting, doctor sir, of your garbage.
We will, doctor sir, charge you half your weekly income
And see how you like the feeling.
Tell me, doctor sir, if you have the time
Tell me, doctor sir, why charge the price you do.
Oh I know, doctor sir, that you have study long and hard
But that was years ago
And I know, doctor sir, that you have many bills to pay.
Tell me, doctor sir, why is it that you are so greedy?
Is it, doctor sir, because you can be?
Oh I know, doctor sir, that there are overheads to consider
But you are one of a select few in this town
who can see a patient right now.
Our Government, doctor sir, pays you a good living
Through our taxes, doctor sir, you are sure of payment.
Tell me, doctor sir, how would it be
If every time you needed help you had to pay
half of your weekly income?
You don't brook any excuses, doctor sir, for not being able to pay
You even charge if the appointment must be broken
No excuses, doctor sir, you say.
Our health is our life, doctor sir, we have no choice in this
But you, doctor sir, have us by the balls.
So, doctor sir, I say to you, when next you need a friend,
Help in putting out the fire in your house
or the collecting, doctor sir, of your garbage.
We will, doctor sir, charge you half your weekly income
And see how you like the feeling.
Friday, 13 June 2008
WHAT?
Five thousand US dollars a SECOND.
This is suppose to make it easier to imagine.
But it doesn't.
Five thousand dollars a second is the cost of the war in Iraq...
All based on a lie...
And that is not even counting the cost of lives.
And now they want to make noises towards Iran.
What the F***!!!!
This is suppose to make it easier to imagine.
But it doesn't.
Five thousand dollars a second is the cost of the war in Iraq...
All based on a lie...
And that is not even counting the cost of lives.
And now they want to make noises towards Iran.
What the F***!!!!
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
DATE
She rang to say how excited she was that someone had asked her out on a date, the first one in over a year...'a proper one'.
He had seen her face on facebook and liked what he saw and was a friend of a friend.
She talked about it for three days.
A frisson in her voice that made her parents hearts lighten.
He turns up....late.
WRONG!
He turns up in a Porsche.
WRONG!
He talks incessantly about himself and how to make money.
WRONG!
He takes her, in the second largest city in the country, to a RSL club.
WRONG!
He talks about how to save money and how much he has.
WRONG!
They walk together to the cashier and he turns and says matter of factly:
"Of course you will be paying for yourself" as he removes his wallet from his pants.
WRONG!
She doles out the last note she has and has none left to escape from this nightmare by taxi.
What the heck is wrong with twenty something males.
I have been watching re runs of "Friends" (refused to watch such garbage the first time around, and besides I was busy with my life) to try and get a handle on the attitudes of ...me meme, me meme, and myself and I.
They are selfish, lying, conceited, manipulating, sneaky, misleading, dishonest, cowards. Did they really inform a generation? Or did the generation inform the performances.
This beautiful, funny, socially aware, feisty, honest champion of others is being short changed.
All these twenty somethings who are living with mummy and daddy, or are being supported one way or another by mummy and daddy, or who want another mummy to take care of them, and who can only talk about themselves and their greed..are they real?
I guess my darling girl will have to wait till she is 30 and the pathetic males of her generation catch up and grow up.
He had seen her face on facebook and liked what he saw and was a friend of a friend.
She talked about it for three days.
A frisson in her voice that made her parents hearts lighten.
He turns up....late.
WRONG!
He turns up in a Porsche.
WRONG!
He talks incessantly about himself and how to make money.
WRONG!
He takes her, in the second largest city in the country, to a RSL club.
WRONG!
He talks about how to save money and how much he has.
WRONG!
They walk together to the cashier and he turns and says matter of factly:
"Of course you will be paying for yourself" as he removes his wallet from his pants.
WRONG!
She doles out the last note she has and has none left to escape from this nightmare by taxi.
What the heck is wrong with twenty something males.
I have been watching re runs of "Friends" (refused to watch such garbage the first time around, and besides I was busy with my life) to try and get a handle on the attitudes of ...me meme, me meme, and myself and I.
They are selfish, lying, conceited, manipulating, sneaky, misleading, dishonest, cowards. Did they really inform a generation? Or did the generation inform the performances.
This beautiful, funny, socially aware, feisty, honest champion of others is being short changed.
All these twenty somethings who are living with mummy and daddy, or are being supported one way or another by mummy and daddy, or who want another mummy to take care of them, and who can only talk about themselves and their greed..are they real?
I guess my darling girl will have to wait till she is 30 and the pathetic males of her generation catch up and grow up.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
She never dreamed big
She never dreamed large
She only ever dreamed a dream
of love and comfort and acceptance.
She never writ big
She never writ large
She only ever wrote passion
with love and comfort and acceptance
She never hoped big
She never hoped large
She only ever hoped for peace
in love and comfort and acceptance.
She never bore big
She never bore large
She only bore her children well
for love and comfort and acceptance.
So she grows old, big
She grows tired, large
She grows in understanding
of love and comfort and acceptance.
Friday, 6 June 2008
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Is it really all over?
Is it really done?
What to do about the poor in the South. Saw a programme on the "Jen" (?) township.
Oh dear...the richest country in the world..and the taste of slavery remains after all this time.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Aristotle: "What is common to the greatest number gets the least
amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is their own."
This is not an admirable thing.
This is one of those quotes that mean something other than what it could
be interpreted as.
As in;
"Australia, the lucky country".
This was written by one of our great home grown authors. People now
quote this as if it is 'true'...whereas it is a satirical statement referring
to how we abuse the notion of what Australia is and what it gives us.
We must be forever vigilant in our use of words.
They harm, destroy, misguide and distort.
They also can lead to honest observation, a caring notion and rally goodwill.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Julian Burnside, a man of morals.
In Law, Legislation and Liberty , Friedrich Hayek wrote:
“The effective limitation of power is the most important problem of social order.
Government is indispensable for the formulation of such an order only to protect
against coercion and violence from others. But as soon as, to achieve this,
Government successfully claims the monopoly of coercion and violence,
it becomes the chief threat to individual freedom.”
In the epilogue to his epic A History of Australia, Manning Clark wrote:
“This generation has a chance to be wiser than previous generations.
They can make their own history. With the end of the domination by
the straiteners, the enlargers of life now have their chance. … It is the
task of the historian and the mythmaker to tell the story of how the
world came to be as it is. It is the task of the prophet to tell the story of
what might be. The historian presents the choice: history is a book of
wisdom for those making that choice.”
Australians have a strong instinct for human rights.
Public and political rhetoric tends to favour human rights.
Although Australia does not have a written Bill of Rights,
we have a shared sense that some ideals are basic to our society.
Most of the basic elements of a constitutional democracy are
found in our Constitution, but others are taken for granted:
we tacitly accept them as basic and inalienable.
The American formulation “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
is not only familiar to us from TV dramas; it is a pretty fair reflection
of our own assumptions. For most of us, the assumption remains untested.
The starting point in an argument about a Bill of Rights is that,
within the scope of its legislative competence, Parliament’s power is
unlimited. The classic example of this is that, if Parliament has power
to make laws with respect to children, it could validly pass a law which
required all blue-eyed babies to be killed at birth. The law, although
terrible, would be valid. One response to this is that a democratic system allows that government to be thrown out at the next election.
This is not much comfort for the blue-eyed babies born in the meantime.
And even this democratic correction may not be enough:
if blue-eyed people are an unpopular minority, the majority
may prefer to return the government to power.
The Nuremberg laws of Germany in the 1930s were horrifying,
but were constitutionally valid laws which attracted the support of many Germans.
Here is a man of the court system who is thinking, considering and morally attuned.
Thank heavens for Julian in our poverty stricken justice system.
“The effective limitation of power is the most important problem of social order.
Government is indispensable for the formulation of such an order only to protect
against coercion and violence from others. But as soon as, to achieve this,
Government successfully claims the monopoly of coercion and violence,
it becomes the chief threat to individual freedom.”
In the epilogue to his epic A History of Australia, Manning Clark wrote:
“This generation has a chance to be wiser than previous generations.
They can make their own history. With the end of the domination by
the straiteners, the enlargers of life now have their chance. … It is the
task of the historian and the mythmaker to tell the story of how the
world came to be as it is. It is the task of the prophet to tell the story of
what might be. The historian presents the choice: history is a book of
wisdom for those making that choice.”
Australians have a strong instinct for human rights.
Public and political rhetoric tends to favour human rights.
Although Australia does not have a written Bill of Rights,
we have a shared sense that some ideals are basic to our society.
Most of the basic elements of a constitutional democracy are
found in our Constitution, but others are taken for granted:
we tacitly accept them as basic and inalienable.
The American formulation “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
is not only familiar to us from TV dramas; it is a pretty fair reflection
of our own assumptions. For most of us, the assumption remains untested.
The starting point in an argument about a Bill of Rights is that,
within the scope of its legislative competence, Parliament’s power is
unlimited. The classic example of this is that, if Parliament has power
to make laws with respect to children, it could validly pass a law which
required all blue-eyed babies to be killed at birth. The law, although
terrible, would be valid. One response to this is that a democratic system allows that government to be thrown out at the next election.
This is not much comfort for the blue-eyed babies born in the meantime.
And even this democratic correction may not be enough:
if blue-eyed people are an unpopular minority, the majority
may prefer to return the government to power.
The Nuremberg laws of Germany in the 1930s were horrifying,
but were constitutionally valid laws which attracted the support of many Germans.
Here is a man of the court system who is thinking, considering and morally attuned.
Thank heavens for Julian in our poverty stricken justice system.
Monday, 2 June 2008
Its a beginning!
Australian troops arrive home and more to come.
"Some 300 troops will remain inside Iraq, including the 110-member
security detachment guarding Australian diplomats and others in Baghdad.
A further 500 will remain in the region, including 200 sailors
aboard the frigate HMAS Stuart in the Persian Gulf.
As well as providing security, the Australian forces had
done everything from building schools, bridges and veterinary
clinics to training some 33,000 Iraqi soldiers."
SMH(2 June 2008)
PM promised it and he has once again delivered on an election promise.
It is but a beginning and after all this time being lead into
a foolishness for a second time ( the first being Vietnam) by the USA it is time
to save our own.
Hopefully next time we will think twice ( and maybe ten times) before we believe
them again.
Time to come home boys and girls..all of you!
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