dVerse Poets – Poetics – Taboo
Amaya at dVerse has invited us to write a poem considering the topic taboo!
Photo: deptfordcinema.org
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
Of Every Bastard Politician
How I desire compassion
O how I talk of love,
I would rend the heavens for
orphans and widows,
downtrodden people turned
into beasts of no consequence,
O, but lust!
My jaw slackens,
saliva glistens my jaw,
heart racing,
as I waking dream
the mollusks and shells of
keelhauling, the ropes of death,
the bullets of ebbing breath,
blood coursing my hands,
of every bastard politician.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
parallax 
Profound piece Paul.
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Thank you Rupali, a passionate taboo indeed.
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Thoughts of murder may be no better than actual murder in the final reckoning. Nice expression of the taboo of revenge.
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I’m mentally blowing daisy seeds from a stem 🙂 it is in my mind a lot these days. Frustration.
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Keelhauling. A just retribution. Hypocrites all and lust their final undoing, and the only crime that ever seems to find condemnation by the public in these puritanical days.
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Yes, it seems to me there’s no line in the sand anymore.
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Everything is up for grabs.
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Yes, very much so. I feel that we’re on a downward slide.
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I was listening to some school kids on the radio this lunchtime, climate strikers, giving the self-righteous school teachers a going over. Wanting to know why they tell kids they have no business missing classes on Friday to protest over a catastrophe that will mean devastation of all life on the planet, then the next Friday, all the teachers are on strike protesting about the new pension system.
Great hearing them, no nonsense, straight-talking and determined.
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youth can penetrate hypocrisy fast, some adultws lose that capacity, I was in a similar space a month ago listening to a group talking to politicians, same result. i hope they kepep pushing, wonderful to feel theri energy and hear their sharp intelect cutting through the BS.
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Yes, they don’t have the politicals’ knack of avoiding the question and rambling on with added fluff to disguise the fact. They use short sharp sentences, point out facts, inconsistencies and ask questions, for which, unlike journalists, they expect to get answers. I can’t remember the last time I heard a journalist interviewing a politician insist that he/she answer the question. They let them get away with any old rubbish. Supine behaviour.
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We collude, weird, when we have the power to put them we fold.
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There’s always a deliberate strategy behind it. It helps to be completely cynical then you don’t expect anyone in the public eye to be honest.
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Ever since I could speak I’ve had a healthy questioning of politicians, my mother taught me well.
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If she had any Irish in her that could explain it 🙂
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There is that Irish thing 🙂
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There you are then 🙂
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I cannot deny, in fact proud of 🙂
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I’ll stick with it too 🙂
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Together we go … 🙂
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Possibly the best country in the world. Italy without the sunshine.
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Yes, I get that, here that would be Melbourne.
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Is that like Ireland with the sun?
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Melbourne would be if you squint 🙂
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I’ll have to visit one day 🙂
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You must, and then come over to the west, which is where I am, and nothing at all like Ireland. 🙂
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No, the deserts of Connemara…doesn’t sound quite right 🙂 I’d like to. Before it all goes up in flames. Not the desert, the other parts.
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Yes, I’m still looking to the next adventure by four wheel drive.
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🙂
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So difficult to not have taboo thoughts in these time.
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So true VJ, no one worthy.
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you’ve expressed our mass frustration at these lying thieving B…s 😦
Don’t do it, not worth it …
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Thank you Kate, my blood runs hot these days.
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I’m at a loss what to do … they will get their karma but that doesn’t help our immediate situation …
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Yes, instant karma would be good for them.
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Taboo of Getting
Revenge Clever
of Bugs Bunny Better..;)
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🙂
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Immediately shared!
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Very kind Liz, thank you so much.
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My pleasure, Paul!
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A good one. Now, “bastard politician”? Isn’t that a tad redundant?
(Where’s the tongue-in-cheek emoji when you need it?)
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Lol, a tad redundant, it’ll take three generations to weed out the filth.
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I’ve mentioned it countless times: never before has humanity been so educated. end of 19th century there was close to 40% in Europe who could not read or write… So, why do morons keep emerging as politicians and keep acting the same ruthless way as centuries ago. Beats me.
We, the people, are at fault.
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Yes, the fault is in us for electing morons. Intellect is tricky though, a number of educated peopel are involved in fundamentalist christianity, beleive in conspiracy theories, aberant medical methods, and weird politics. Makes me wonder what is missing.
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Spot on. I’ve seen people with 6-10 years higher education who don’t vaccinate their children or themselves. “Too risky”.
What is missing indeed? Hmmm. I think I need to go back to Russell and the Greeks.
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If some intelligent people can fall for rubbish, then it says to me it’s about their mind maps, Freud had a bit to say about that. 🙂
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You’re most certainly right. I need to go back my “Introduction à la psychanalyse” by the good Doctor.
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I have this saying, lol, It’s all in the child.” 🙂
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Fantastic imagery, Paul. I think everything can be expunged, everything can be forgiven.
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Yes, as a pacifist I still found this delicious to mull over, but indeed forgiveness will play its part, for which I yearn for myself as much as for others. Thank you Amaya.
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I can understand those murderous thoughts… but in the end, we will not do it
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No, and least of all me, a pacifist, but I surprised myself with murderous thoughts. Thank you Bjorn.
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Paul, as long as lust for power and control consumes the hearts of humans, politicians will step up to play the game. I truly believe those humans have sold their souls to evil, even the ones who honestly think they have good intentions. I’m with Jefferson.
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Yes, agreed, and that’s why I want a different answer, sigh.
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WOW!
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My blood boils Jay.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Beware the liars I say 🙂
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I so agree, but they are slippery snakes!
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Poisonous lot.
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Yes!!
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I’m a pacifist but my blood is boiling.
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Me too! Is it ok to wish people dead?
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I think it’s quite human to wish people dead, unpleasant as that thought might be for some.
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My dad would say that that is the same as murder. 🧐
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Well there’s that gospel injunction where Jesus says “so much as you think it …” but the thing is most people do. He was trying to get people who were pious and sanctimonious to see that we’re no greater than anyone else, it was a levelling.
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Well…. yes…. ug. Hate the literal interpretations. That’s why I don’t subscribe any longer.
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Yes, a lot has been missed in the wilful interpretation by those with narrow views and incomplete understanding.
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Well written, Paul! There is so much truth in it, and the related movie is a wonderful piece too. I love the version with Bruce Willies, too. 😉 Best wishes, and (try to) stay far away from the virus. How small, but how professional this thing is travelling around the world. It does not need a passport, and it does not stop on borders. Speaking all languages around the world. 😉 Michael
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Lol, it is a very accomplished virus indeed. 🙂
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Nature always invented the best. Its a Chinese one, means first copied, than perfectioned. The Chinese tradition cant lie. :-))
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🙂
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Just such a perfect poem for these times. I’m grateful to hear voices like yours from around the globe. It gives me hope!
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Thank you, mutually encouraging to read your response, we live in the weirdest of times, I never saw this coming.
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Whoa!! brutal
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Yes, imagine it!!
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