Submissions by AnonymousBystander
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
The Fourth Estate
The fourth estate became the failed estate:
industrial scale criminality
as seen under the media magnate
Murdoch, but not without complicity
of the journalists and their editors.
The fourth estate became the failed estate:
the self appointed mis-translators
of controversial speeches into hate.
The political, self-righteous, irate,
mistaken editorials was when
the fourth estate became the failed estate.
The ignorant gonzo journalists then
decided they had a monopoly
of truth. Unable to see their mistake
as...
industrial scale criminality
as seen under the media magnate
Murdoch, but not without complicity
of the journalists and their editors.
The fourth estate became the failed estate:
the self appointed mis-translators
of controversial speeches into hate.
The political, self-righteous, irate,
mistaken editorials was when
the fourth estate became the failed estate.
The ignorant gonzo journalists then
decided they had a monopoly
of truth. Unable to see their mistake
as...
#politics
#quatrain
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2 Comments
C P Snow's Two Cultures
Just a sop to the ...
mediocre on both sides
of a false divide ...
mediocre on both sides
of a false divide ...
#politics
#senryu
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3 Comments
A Student
A
someone
that has been
under constant
Discipline of Mind.
Excellent Sheep who are
naive. No freedom of thought:
trained to obey authority.
someone
that has been
under constant
Discipline of Mind.
Excellent Sheep who are
naive. No freedom of thought:
trained to obey authority.
#politics
613 reads
12 Comments
Economies of Scale
How to squander the
economies of large scale?
Form a company ...
economies of large scale?
Form a company ...
#senryu
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4 Comments
Not Scientific but Legal Objectivity Prevails
I ticked every box as mixed race,
a scientist objectively
answering the question in place.
But legal objectivity
accurately reflects the world.
Our shared irrationality,
says Lord Denning, is now unfurled
upon the Clapham omnibus:
reason in the common man's world.
His view is reasonableness,
and his view in this world prevails ...
a scientist objectively
answering the question in place.
But legal objectivity
accurately reflects the world.
Our shared irrationality,
says Lord Denning, is now unfurled
upon the Clapham omnibus:
reason in the common man's world.
His view is reasonableness,
and his view in this world prevails ...
#politics
#science
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2 Comments
Once the Juden were Deplorables
If the new Juden
are the deplorables ... well,
what does that make you?
are the deplorables ... well,
what does that make you?
#senryu
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2 Comments
Remaining Blinkered
the hysteria ...
of being frightened by your
own fear mongering ...
of being frightened by your
own fear mongering ...
#senryu
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2 Comments
Who's Lying?
Who is the liar ...
The one who says, or the one
who misconstrues said?
The one who says, or the one
who misconstrues said?
#lies
#senryu
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2 Comments
Children's Crusade
The first Children's Crusade enslaved
the gullible and dimwitted.
But none of us - it seems - are saved
from child soldier naifs, outwitted
by propaganda of depraved
greedy predators. Ill fitted
is reason to hysteria -
like talking to diphtheria.
With sincerity beyond doubt,
their decency is weaponised.
The modern Fagins send them out
to pick the pockets of the despised;
with carbon trading there's no lout
to show the theft and be compromised.
As to this rehearsal scheming...
the gullible and dimwitted.
But none of us - it seems - are saved
from child soldier naifs, outwitted
by propaganda of depraved
greedy predators. Ill fitted
is reason to hysteria -
like talking to diphtheria.
With sincerity beyond doubt,
their decency is weaponised.
The modern Fagins send them out
to pick the pockets of the despised;
with carbon trading there's no lout
to show the theft and be compromised.
As to this rehearsal scheming...
#corruption
#politics
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4 Comments
Trying to Make Galileo Green (eppur si muove)
Ninety-seven per
cent of scientists agree ...
and ... 'and yet it moves' ...
cent of scientists agree ...
and ... 'and yet it moves' ...
#senryu
556 reads
1 Comment
Hungry Visit (to Limerick)
A fox came to visit last night.
He was foraging for a bite,
he look'd in the bin
to find a strange tin
of out dat'd spam: food not right.
He was foraging for a bite,
he look'd in the bin
to find a strange tin
of out dat'd spam: food not right.
#limerick
385 reads
8 Comments
Conveying a Subtle Point is like
.. explaining to the
semi-literate that there's
a 'b' in subtle
semi-literate that there's
a 'b' in subtle
#frustration
#senryu
433 reads
4 Comments
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