[Peace-discuss] Newspoem September 2013

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

>
> May this blinking light
> throb behind their eyelids, burning their retinas, when they try to sleep.
>    
wynken, blynken, and gnawed...
> bovine orators masticate today's content
> spewing a bland cud of stocks slaughter and yogurt.
Spewing of cud seems more camelid than bovine.

Cattle are more likely to bellow and sling snot
while camels and llamas spit a very foul cud
that is hardly bland or vaguely reminiscent of yogurt.





On 09/04/13 5:15, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> NATIONAL PUPPET RADIO
>
> They have no halitosis though
> their mouths are stuffed with corpses.
> Spewing nasal spectacled listerine equivocations,
> bovine orators masticate today's content
> spewing a bland cud of stocks slaughter and yogurt.
>
> 100,000 dead? Obama wants in,
> Blood in the water, chief executive shark
> swimming into the gulf flanked by warships,
> clinging to their hulls the soulless barnacles
> of National Parasite Radio sponsored by FOX Broadcasting Company.
>
> Nerve gas! Such a crude example of quashing dissent
> makes this somnolent propaganda look weak-willed
> and threatens our monopoly on chemical weapons,
> human rights violation, death tolls,
> and burning public money in the desert.
>
> We've rehearsed your part since 1991
> joker face making of the murders you discuss
> a dull background patter suitable for washing the
> privilege off our dishes as your robotic illiberal voices
> wash civilians' blood off our leaders' hands .
>
> National Pusillanimous Radio sponsored by Citibank.
>
> Somewhere a white person has cancer!
>
> Frank objectivity, combative debate:
> one advises cautionary war
> another demands a pre-emptive war
> another disagrees, advocates a preventative war
> another pleads war with congressional support
> still another requests war with international support
> (well, obviously, not international support, but maybe we can get France?)
>
> Lockheed Martin: we never forget who we’re working for.
>
> Not so fast, guys. We could also look at a smaller war,
> a war made out of vases of cut flowers, kittens,
> and bereavement cards. Let's not forget the amazing
> healing power of surgical strikes (we aren't advocating
> free surgery to the uninsured, incidentally, but
> clean, precise, sterile explosions of munitions,
> or, barring that, surgically edited coverage of horrific bombings).
>
> We want to make sure all our options are on the table:
> tasteful war, monotone war, inoffensive war, or we could be
> looking at a clean war, an air-conditioned war, a figurative war
> that's also a literal war, a war with frosted roses, a gluten-free war,
> a war based on a best-selling book, a twee ukelele duo war,
> a Shakespearean war starring Gwyneth Paltrow, or even a cruel war.
> An unnecessary vicious murderous arrogant world-destroying war.
> In other words, war. We're looking at every option.
>
> But one caller who thinks war is murder, and murder is unjustifiable,
> who thinks we're better than that, that we need to heal our country,
> adopt an isolationist stance, disarm our nuclear warheads,
> is still on hold, a blinking light on the switchboard that, no matter
> how fiercely ignored, refuses to hang up. May this blinking light
> throb behind their eyelids, burning their retinas, when they try to sleep.
>
> ...
> --William Gillespie
> <http://keyholefactory.com>
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