giletdonism, chorus iii

it was a massively morbid error
to teach a generation
that the nazis were uniquely evil.
the crime of genocide
is fundamentally human
and celebrated annually
with fireworks and feasts
strong and stable,
safe in our beliefs
let us adorn for the gilet years
whatever starts with hope
will end in tears
it’s the hint of sulphur
underneath the blend
ah well, we’ll get there in the end

the nazis aren’t the only people who have tried to wipe out another race and take their land. that is also how the usa was established. but we see it differently for some reason. and it’s what israel is doing. trump has already set up a gestapo. what crimes are happening that we can’t see yet?

degenerate cosmopolitan

i’m not jewish but i am a degenerate cosmopolitan
tagging my archive, overwhelmed by the burden of time,
the library extends my being
to a new dimension, my mind fleeing
to the shelf. and when i see a single magpie i blurt, i say
there was a second one but i scared it away
down glens and valleys, down spirits and sedatives
my love is unambiguous
but the good souls may as well forgive us

i often reflect that if i lived in nazi germany, i would have been a victim, not a perpetrator. i’m left wing. i believe in individual freedom. i’m an artist. i’m disabled.

i am very scared about the turns being taken in many so called western liberal democracies.

human misery, revenue & customs

i conclude it must stand for human misery,
revenue and customs
israel is a strategic geopolitical position,
a frontier of colonialism,
and its postsoviet bravado is borderline offensive.
i stand in opposition to ethnic cleansing,
whoever practises it
and i guess i’m soft-versus all conflict;
gies peace fae yer game a soldiers
the lifespans on the cusp of either or
then i walked into my bench with such force
that i shrieked and writhed on my floor.

this was what i wrote a year ago, and things only get worse. the world is a terrifying place. i think we should be very scared. we aren’t safe.