From A Place Of Safety
It’s an easy thing, from a place of safety, To tell the oppressed and threatened Not to cower, a different thing, when in Their place of danger, not to do… Continue Reading
Browsing Tag: fascism
Roots
Where it began isn’t the back streets Nor the beer cellars nor the market places Of 1930s Germany, nor slavery or the Lazy imperialism of white men wanting More than… Continue Reading
A Billionaire In Black
What is more lucid than a Nazi salute from a billionaire In black at the start of a new State? What is more clear than A Nazi salute about the… Continue Reading
The Inauguration Of Evil
Today marks the official inauguration of the first openly fascist country since Hitler’s Germany (although McCarthyism gave Nazism a close run for its money). A fascist state supported wholly and… Continue Reading
Mourning For America’s Soul – and fearing for the world
Everything, and I mean everything, we write is political, and it’s never a pleasure when what we write is prescient, when dystopia becomes reality, when fictional and non-fictional warnings are… Continue Reading
The Far Right Never Went Away
I’m cross-posting this on all my sites. It’s not about writing, but my literature professors always told me that to know the writer is to understand the writing. It was… Continue Reading
Paltry
I feel as helpless now as I did At fifteen when I couldn’t get Out of bad situations. The Wisdom sixty-three years of Living have given me is paltry, Flyaway… Continue Reading
Day 338
THE MOTHER OF DEMOCRACY Who has stolen my hours, My fountain, my ink, my words? Precious little light, and the candles Sputter in the low mist on The brow of… Continue Reading
England, Pale Mother
With deference and apologies to Bertolt Brecht. A paraphrasing of Brecht’s Deutschland, Bleiche Mutter poem, in view of the elections in England on 22nd May 2014. Brecht composed the poem… Continue Reading