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"concientious" poems
"Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes" He said to me as Zulus came across the drift What if I keep mine closed I said Pretend there all at home instead So what if their eyes are red after a late night out Or Yellow" jaundiced and unwell All the thoughts went through his head As the soldier held his gun up high As screaming warriors began to die What if the others shot them all? So I didn't have to get involved Sgt Major is rather cross as as he's just been shot in the *** It's all becoming quite absurd I watched a film and fell asleep Mad now I'm there in my dreams Some solace? If there can be just one I watched Zulu and not "What dreams may come"....
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Jun 21, 2013
Jun 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM UTC
MichealWolf
Concientious Defector
"Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes" He said to me as Zulus came across the drift What if I keep mine closed I said Pretend there all at home instead So what if their eyes are red after a late night out Or Yellow" jaundiced and unwell All the thoughts went through his head As the soldier held his gun up high As screaming warriors began to die What if the others shot them all? So I didn't have to get involved Sgt Major is rather cross as as he's just been shot in the *** It's all becoming quite absurd I watched a film and fell asleep Mad now I'm there in my dreams Some solace? If there can be just one I watched Zulu and not "What dreams may come"....
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It was immaterial who had fired the first proverbial shot in the great Schenectady logomachy. What was immediately clear, however, after the proverbial dust had proverbially settled was that the battle had left no survivors. Proverbially. And what had begun as a simple ballot measure to rebrand the municipal mascot had ended in the annihilation of every intellect in Schenectady County. And much of the East, West, and No Coast regions of the United States. The grass roots campaign to replace the Schenectady Patriot with the Schenectady Concientious Objector (a figure no less devoted to country, but more "free thinking," its proponents would argue) had gathered unexpected steam when introduced to the public at large in a tweet by the nation's commander in chief. The inevitable result being a relentless and fast paced evolution of the story by all-day-all-night-all-the-time news producers. All using the same words with different tone and inflection. And the relitigation of every detail by 37% of American households. Including 6% that didn't actually give a **** but enjoyed participating. So what had been good natured and modestly ambitioned civic badinage progressed through all the stages of twenty-first century newspeak familiar to the politically observant of the time. With any nuanced or genuine debate relegated to micro-audienced podcasts and IRC channels scattered about the internet. And when the measure passed. As part of a pendulum swing greater than itself. The victors taken by surprise and frayed at all edges by the death threats and vitriol visited upon them in the preceding weeks felt sure that everything would be better off simply left alone. While their detractors apoplectic foretold the end of civilization. And prepared accordingly.
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May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018 at 6:02 AM UTC
hrdieterle
Logomachy
It was immaterial who had fired the first proverbial shot in the great Schenectady logomachy. What was immediately clear, however, after the proverbial dust had proverbially settled was that the battle had left no survivors. Proverbially. And what had begun as a simple ballot measure to rebrand the municipal mascot had ended in the annihilation of every intellect in Schenectady County. And much of the East, West, and No Coast regions of the United States. The grass roots campaign to replace the Schenectady Patriot with the Schenectady Concientious Objector (a figure no less devoted to country, but more "free thinking," its proponents would argue) had gathered unexpected steam when introduced to the public at large in a tweet by the nation's commander in chief. The inevitable result being a relentless and fast paced evolution of the story by all-day-all-night-all-the-time news producers. All using the same words with different tone and inflection. And the relitigation of every detail by 37% of American households. Including 6% that didn't actually give a **** but enjoyed participating. So what had been good natured and modestly ambitioned civic badinage progressed through all the stages of twenty-first century newspeak familiar to the politically observant of the time. With any nuanced or genuine debate relegated to micro-audienced podcasts and IRC channels scattered about the internet. And when the measure passed. As part of a pendulum swing greater than itself. The victors taken by surprise and frayed at all edges by the death threats and vitriol visited upon them in the preceding weeks felt sure that everything would be better off simply left alone. While their detractors apoplectic foretold the end of civilization. And prepared accordingly.
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