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This song is exceptionally brilliant in all respects. I can't praise it enough. A lot of my best songs from the 70s (my 20s) were freeform poetry like this one, but I can't reproduce the music using BiaB and even if I could spend hours recording just my vocals and guitar accompaniment at home where making any loud sound is virtually impossible I can't see how I could incorporate BiaB. But this song makes me really want to. Re the theme, if we lived in real democracies - governments FOR the people and BY humans of love and compassion instead of by servants of the banks and corporations for the banks and corporations - there'd never ever be any homelessness. Most people think of fascism as being outright dictatorship, but I recently read that Mussolini, who coined the term, defined it as "the marriage of the corporate with the state". I can't be certain that's true - you wouldn't find it on Wikipedia anyway - but it's what we've got.
Here's a poem I wrote in 2009, actually thematically atypical for me (it's published in one of my poetry books): ======= The Lost Ones Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment So many are dying From simple starvation When in truth they need not While others die obese For we live in a loveless man-made world.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment Many persons are being burgled While others are robbed openly, or kidnapped And others are beaten and murdered. Homo sapiens - 'man the wise' - the species Of both guilty and innocent.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment A woman is being raped in the USA And many more the loveless world over While children are being abused: Some beaten, some raped, some murdered as unwanted While somewhere another is recruited to fight a war And is coerced to execute adults and to rape Or is recruited only to sexually service rapists And at this moment Yet another is sold and enslaved.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment A person is being tortured By the command of a despotic government While another is being tortured in a land where Free 'man the wise' elects hi/r own dictators.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment Both children and adults are dying From diseases cultured by others of their own species 'Man the wise' In the name of profit, free enterprise and national security While many others are dying from inadequately tested cures For both natural and cultured viruses Some cures paid for Some malevolently given free As it saves the pharmaceutical manufacturers Testing time and therefore Millions of dollars.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment Another human dies Treading on a land mine Or unexploded cluster bomb While many more innocents are killed in wars By lethal arms Sold for lucrative profit by the dealers of which The five permanent member states Of the UN Security Council Are the most Successful.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment Another innocent person goes to prison Or execution Either due to incompetent courtrooms Or framed By police, prosecutors, or governments Or some without even trial.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment Yet another innocent human vanishes And joins all those who are called "the disappeared" 'Vaporised' by governments who fear their feeble words Or just thoughts.
Somewhere tonight ... This day ... This moment Many find they cannot forgive The Lost Ones Who perpetrate these crimes. © 2009
Some favourite Waoist Adages: #1: Play on the Way. #13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you. #58: Bring consciousness to it. #63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made. #92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.
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