For those missing in reaction
In the darkest of jungles
I’ve hunted & collected
black market creatures
spawned from the crooked deals
of the well healed and concealed
criminal classes
Riding high with Pablo & Carlos
in an altered cosmos
where the likes of Escobar
is a some kind of Super Star
Prohibition …
The ransomware of despair
socially engineered
for a snow white culture
A Big Brother dysfunction
and an epic fatal global failure
I’ve seen the mighty temples
built upon the rotting corpses
all staked out
along the misty mountains
of cocaína Columbia
About as much
as a poor boy can
I’ve heard the splashing sound
of blood hitting the ground
from the pistola Americana
Just another F.B.I. delivery
crossing the border
That War on Drugs
was never meant to be won
But always profitable for some
Isn’t it high time
to make a stand?
~ David B. Redpath © 2018-19
Señor Waron d’Rugs
. . . Plenty more where he came from
Snake hunting in Yucatan
. . . in the Tequila Sunshine
Photography;
David & Linda Redpath © 2018-19
The third pic reminds me of Nude Descending Staircase by Duchamp. (: Beautiful work.
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That’s just me, Elisa.
Too many jungle biting beastie
to go skyclad.
(too many Banditos, also).
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Skyclad. That is a term I haven’t heard in a while…
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One form of cladding
that won’t catch fire 🔥😎
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LOL!
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I like the art. 🙂 And they R. Just say no… for real.
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Thanks for that, Stella.
It always go well when
Big Bro. says no 👎 on
everybody’s behalf.
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Your welcome!
You’re right!.:)
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The War On Drugs is another colossal failure of a war like every other war the U.S.A. has fought since it helped defeat Nazi Germany in 1945.
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Civilization forever battling
to death in a feudal Colosseum.
Where Cold War Lords duel with
living chess pieces in a heated frenzy.
Peace and freedom no longer good
for big business. Quite the opposite.
Empires built on guns, greed, and
the acquiescence of least resistance.
Fellow travellers boasting of their
privileged slave economy status.
The National Socialist’s certainly
got the train of social engineering
running dead on time.
And that railroad schedule fell into the
grateful hands of triumphant victors.
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It was strange.
Earlier today I was thinking about the 1963 Vincent Price movie Diary of A Madman that was based on two of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories.
Price plays a judge who sentences to death a murderer.
The murderer says it was an evil spirit called a Horla that forced him to kill as the judge comes to see him in his cell.
The murderer dies and the Horla enters the judge (Price) and he becomes a murderer.
I was thinking today of how that movie is almost symbolic of what happened to the U.S. after World War II.
It passes judgement on the Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg and then it seems that whatever spirit was behind the Third Reich then entered the highest echelons of the U.S. government and U.S. society.
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I saw that movie many years ago, Chris.
But like all good movies, you never forget.
When the U.S. Air Force first joined the
allied bombing campaign in WWII, it was
most critical of the R.A.A.F. for dropping
their bombs too high over Germany to be
always accurate, and thereby running the
risk of hitting civilian areas. The British
pointed out that it was a strategic decision
to kept their planes as clear as possible from
German anti-aircraft fire. The Americans
did not approve, and thereby lost far more
aircraft flying lower to ensure accuracy.
Interesting that by the end of the war,
the U.S. was willing to drop two nuclear
bombs on mainly civilian targets.
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Here, here! As if it wasn’t already clear to me that America’s War on Drugs has been a complete failure and pure waste of money both at home and abroad, living in Colombia reminds me of that fact each and every day.
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Not to mention Rodrigo Duterte, and
the obscene scene in the Philippines.
30 thousand plus extrajudicial murders
and counting, along with the innocent
“collateral damage”. A war on poor
people, who happen to use drugs.
Thanks Henry, for the confirmation from
your world view observations 🙏😎
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hahaha…HEAR HEAR
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was never meant to be won indeed, not unlike most of the modern wars. the sound of blood hitting the ground is too feeble to register with the stakeholders.
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To the shareholders of black market operations,
it’s the sound of a cash register … Ka-ching.
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Ah, what music it makes!
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I always hear Salt-N-Pepa singing Push it
whenever I walk down Pennsylvania Avenue
. . . or Wall Street. On the other hand, the
Pentagon reverberates with Alice Cooper’s
Welcome to My Nightmare.
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Ha ha! I’d rather listen to Push It too.
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After all, you’re a poet who likes to push it
. . . real good 😎
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I am glad you get me! 😘
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In an altered cosmos or even just a dark night, we’ll catch a highway thru a cruel world, into a cool world.
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Yes Watt. Even then it comes to dope
on a rope, there is always hope.
“Socialism, hypnotism,
patriotism, materialism.
Fools making laws
for the breaking of jaws
And the sound of the keys
as they clink
But there’s no time to think.”
“Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.”
~ The Poet Laureate of Rock’n’Roll
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There’s no hope when the pope’s on dope.
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Heaven forbid, Bojana!
Next he’ll be popping the pill,
and asking the faithful
to pay his pharmacy bill.
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True that.
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You look good in front of a pagoda.
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Thank you, Basilike 💛 You’ve made my day!
It’s actually the Mayan Temple of the Warriors
at Chichén-Itzá.
Don’t know what I was doing there,
being a lover . . . not a fighter 😎
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You were pushing it!
I just realized pagoda is not the right word. Now I am thinking ziggurat. Better stick to temple.
And now I am thinking about the song Temple of Love, by a band whose name eludes me
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Sisters of Mercy . . .
As you should have mercy on me, Sister 🌼
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That’s right!
There’s no mercy for those who enter the temple of Lucretia, my reflection.
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Yes . . the Little Sisters of Mercy
don’t deal in Hot Metal or Methedrine ☠️
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They have nobler pursuits, I suppose.
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Quetzalcoatl?
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Chichén Itzá.
Where the Mayans played soccer.
They must’ve been sports mad,
for the captain of the losing team
lost his head!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah…Kukulkan. Quetzalcoatl is Aztec. Wrong serpent.
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I was going to ask, but the Mayans had
all gone to the coast for a Playa Cancún
day trip in the Carribbean Sun.
Anyway, Victoria,
they serpently had lots of fun 😎
As for the Aztecs,
I don’t know where they went?
Perhaps best ask Cortés & his conquistadors?
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High rolling profiteers
Don’t see the tears
Of sacrificial lambs
Sniffing a few grams
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After being handed the franchise
by Tricky Dicky Nixon . . . by order
of none other than Captain America.
Banning Indian hemp was such
a big success in saving American
teenagers, and jazz singers,
from reefer madness, why not ban
that Mexican marching powder?
. . . Nothing racist about that!
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Oh so forthright and true……….
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Thanks Ivor. A poet does need
to read beyond the playbook 😎
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A poet does try
I’m no script writer
The picture sometimes eludes me
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Discretion is the better part of Ivor,
along with his poetry that many adore✌️
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This war was meant to be won by the perpetrators of war. The losing masses are never of any consequence.
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There’s always an angle, Punam.
The War Lords of the Golden Triangle,
and Afghanistan, always have access
to the top shelf stuff … like cash.
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Ah, yes! There is always an angle! Sad state…
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Reblogged this on Vijayagiri views.
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Exquisite and elegant, and one of the most most meaningful of all!
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Thank you, Scott 🙏
It’s a subject I feel strongly about, having
lived amongst the legally marginalised
. . . and seeing the damage done.
People with mental health issues, being
treated as fodder for the privatised and
ever profitable prison industry.
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It can be hard to stand when ur hiGH 🙃
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“I love the smell of recreation in the morning!”
~ General Disobedience
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The art fits so well and the writing is purely powerful and sets the truth of what is happening in the Drug war culture.
P.S What app do you use to create this art? Curious.
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Thanks Charlie. I’m all for the fundamental
human rights of expression, belief, and to do
stupid things. Human history is often an
interesting combination of all three 😎
I actually just use the camera on my Pixel 2
phone, with the Snapseed app installed to
process the pictures. Nice and simple.
And no Apple. Which reminds me . . .
“Does it help you smile
more to wake up
Make you happy just to be alive?
Well I don’t know
if it makes you happy
But it must be healthy
‘Cause it’s certified.
Banapple gas,
oh Banapple gas
All the world is breathing
Banapple gas
Oh oh alas!
No one knows what’s inside it
Banapple gas.” ~ Cat Stevens
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Human history is an interesting sides of both.
I love this Cat Stevens song structure.
And speaking of Human history.
Here’s a quote by someone.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, man repeats history.” ~unknown
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Yes Charlie, I guess History is always
trying to escape some kind of mess.
Last time I saw History, he was slumped
over a bottle of whiskey, trying to drown
himself. His wife, Destiny, was beside
herself . . . with grief.
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Oh! wow! Dude, you should turn this what you replied to me into a poem. I’m serious.
Write this poem into a surrealism of truth in what is happening in our world.
The reference you made of history being drunk on whiskey its genius. And Destiny was beside herself with grief. Genius…and good. 🙂
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Thank you very much, Charlie 🙏
Like a shot of Old Rot Gut,
it just seemed to flow out 😎
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You are welcome, David.
Seriously though, turn those lines you wrote to me into a surrealist poem. If you do, I’ll be going over to read it and digest it. 🙂
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Will do. Thanks Charlie 👍
I was planning to lighten up the mood
for a while on Highway Bloggery, as the
last couple of posts have been a bit heavy🤔🕶️
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You are welcome my friend. 🙂
Every writing your produce is brilliant and incredibly powerful.
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Any kind of war isn’t a perfect exercise. There is continuing unrest and upheaval in various corners of our planet.
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But telling teenagers not to try something,
because it’s bad, always works so well.
There is mounting evidence from countries
where recreational drugs have been
decriminalised that young people are less
inclined to try and buy. It’s suddenly less
cool when treated more as a medical and
mental health issue. Plus much safer when
production & distribution is taken out of
the hands of criminals. Plus a luxury tax
can help fund rehabilitation facilities.
The police free to be public servants, not
nanny state enforcers. In the U.S.there
are police organisations advocating the
cessation of the War on Drugs.
In the last ten years of a concerted War
on Drugs in Mexico, at the insistence of
George W. Bush, some 130, 000 people
have been killed, directly as a result.
That’s police, soldiers, innocent bystanders
. . . and criminals.
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Thank you for sharing more. There is much to think about with the “War on Drugs” from all sides of the discussion.
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Outstanding poem. Beautiful phrases and imagery. Also, a great message. One of my favorites from you.
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Thanks for the positive feedback 🙏
I was concerned about offending, or even
melting down the occasional snowflake 😎
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You can’t worry about those things if you want to be real writer. 😁
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You do know what they did to poor Socrates?
But . . . it’s all Greek to me 😎
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Yes and funny…
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I love how your photo art goes well with what you wrote. This one hits close to home for me. I’m surprised at the lengths someone you love will go to get their fix, nothing is sacred with them. So sad to me. Great post!
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Sorry to hear, Michelle Marie.
It is such a feeling of helplessness.
To quote Neil Young, I’ve seen the needle
. . . and the damage done.
To think that evil people are profiting from
such misery. That evil forces facilitate
and ignorance perpetuates this failed,
and broken down system . . .
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Wow I’ve never heard that. The State of Oklahoma is suing Johnson & Johnson for the Opioid disaster in this state they settled for $85 million. After the death of a teen. My daughter was prescribed 300 of them at one time and her doctor lost her license. It’s a huge deal these addictions so destructive. I know you know this just sharing that. 🙂 Meanwhile we put our lives back together. Huge lost of trust and boundaries have been crossed that can never be uncrossed. So sad actually.
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Why does your plight not surprise me?
The same Johnson & Johnson that sold
Baby Talcum Powder with asbestos in it?!
It is no wonder Oxycodone is referred to
as hillbilly heroin, prescribed by registered
drug dealers. The system is not only broken,
it is corrupted right down to the core.
The Pharmaceutical Industry was the
largest financial donor to Gorge W. Bush’s
election campaigns. And duly, got well
and truly looked after . . .
“You got innocent men in jail,
your insane asylums are filled.
You got unrighteous doctors
dealing drugs that’ll never cure your ills.”
~ Bob Dylan
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Gosh I know I was just listening about that powder today. Thank God I never used that. I think I’m fortunate that we can pick up the pieces and that my worse fear didn’t happen, but she did cross lines that broke my trust so I think that grieves her soul to the core which as a parent you want them to come to their senses but had her doctors helped her cope with her illness it would have saved so much heartache. 🙏🏼💕 so thankful to be on the other side of this.
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It is a long road to recovery.
Loving forgiveness is the best antidote
for working through that ‘survivor’s guilt’.
The doctors of western medicine often
fail to realise that, as humans, we are
not just body & soul, but also spirit . . .
with a conscience 💛
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Oh yes I agree we are working through the healing process I’m believing we will come out the other side stronger 🙏🏼💜
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Hm. War on the People WITH Drugs. Legal & “illegal”.
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“You got innocent men in jail,
your insane asylums are filled
You got unrighteous doctors
dealing drugs that’ll never
cure your ills.” ~ Bob Dylan
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Yes and indeed. And…WOW!!! Love Your art. And Your words. Sigh. 💙☀️💙
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Thank you exponentially, Katy 💖
Just such a pity. Almost 2020, and not
much has changed in Sin City. Since
Big Brother holds all his marked cards
close to his well fed underbelly . . .
In the year 2525, if man is still alive,
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth,
tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain’t gonna need your teeth,
won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin’ limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin’ to do
Some machine’s doin’ that for you
In the year 6565
You won’t need no husband,
won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son,
pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God’s a coming,
He oughta make it by then
Maybe He’ll look around Himself
and say
Guess it’s time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He’ll either say I’m pleased
where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I’m kinda wonderin’
if man is gonna be alive
He’s taken everything
this old earth can give
And he ain’t put back nothing
Now it’s been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew,
now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night,
the twinkling of starlight
So very far away,
maybe it’s only yesterday
~ Richard Lee Evans
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Wow. I only knew the first couple of verses of that song. Damn. 💙
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Zager and Evans etched that song
onto my brain at an early 🤯🧠🕶️
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Amazing. That’s quite a load to carry as a youth!!! 💙🦋🌀Loving that even then relentless, profound observations caught and held Your attention.
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It was such an unusual song that it stood
out, and yes, made a big impression.
Second only to the Beatles White Album ✌️
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The evolution to the modern prescription pills laced with the old powders unfortunately has made it worse. I suppose our early “recreational” age is partly (if not fully) to blame.
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Heath Ledger, Prince, Michael Jackson
. . . they’ve all cashed in their scripts.
But look what happens when you’ve gotta
fight for your right to do the stupid thing
. . . and party 🤔🕶️ What is now called
medicinal, was once known as scorcery.
Loujen, the situation is certainly a worry.
The leadership of Nazi Germany were
all hooked on opiates & amphetamines.
It only served to make ’em ugly & mean😎
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Beautiful pics and strong words
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Thank you very much, Luisa 🙏
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👏👏It is definitely time to take a stand against drugs. Great Post, David
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Politicians & Bankers seem to get away
with doing all the dumb things these days🤔
Perhaps the slogan for 2020 should be
“MAKE BEING STUPID LEGAL AGAIN!”
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