I am the beast
of least resistance
The organ grinder
upon humanity’s back
The Alpha Influencer
on your social media
The leader of the pack
waving a borrowed bible about
Whilst high as a kite
on the aphrodisiac
of greed and corruption
I am the crack
in all creation
๐ ๐ ๐
I am the anvil
and the hammer
The crow
scrounging through
all your personal data
The ringleader tribal
Always grasping
for worldly power
I am the Master Sorcerer
Fear is my secret potion
I’m that anonymous troll
targeting your son
and stalking your daughter
I am the Grand Illusionist
as many doubt
that I even exist
Yet my spiteful contempt
has their world
all in a twist
As my gift
of prideful arrogance
is hard to resist
I’m that deafening shout
no one talks about
Canโt you hear me
seductively whispering
that black is white
and white just ain’t right?
I have a final fantasy
just to your liking
๐ ๐ ๐
I am the hurricane
that fans the flame
of angry rebellion
Reconciliation
is never a part
of my master plan
My blessings come loaded
with devilishly divisive division
Race ยฎ Class ยฉ
Politics ๐ซ Religion โข๏ธ
I am the manifesto
of violent revolution
in a game that is fatal
My main aim
is mass destruction
With my left hand
I wrote Das Kapital
With my right
I wrote Mein Kampf
My glorious masterpiece
War is my ultimate triumph
I brook no interference
from those accursed pacifists
who endeavour to make peace
as conflict is my business
Where the first casualty
is innocence
Since many
are easy to convince
that truth simply don’t exist
Poverty and greed
Pestilence and disease
… they are all just
an added bonus
Man’s inhumanity
to his fellow man
can do with my occasional
inspirational helping hand
After all . . . I am an Angel!
That little red book
was just the cherry on top
Political power is won
down the barrel of a gun
Can I get an Amen!?
For I am the cheerleader
of Armageddon
and my finest hour
is rapidly approaching
I am the Watchman
and that doomsday clock
is quickly ticking
But please . . . don’t surrender
You’ll take all the fun away
I don’t need yet another
sycophantic satanic follower
Gothic fools thinking it’s cool
to play with hell fire
Anton Szandor LaVey
found out the hard way
I do no man any special favour
๐ ๐ ๐
I placed the rocks
in Virginia Woolf’s
coat pockets
as she slowly sank
into the River Ouse
With just a touch
of victorious malice
I held her close
in a final embrace
as she drew
her last breath
๐ ๐ ๐
I am
the virus
of vanity contagious
let loose
upon time and space
Without a good
immune response
resistance is useless
Since my killer pride
has gone viral
To the bedazzled
I’m the light upon the hill
The sly catcher in the rye
for those chasing nirvana
with a cheap final thrill
like a voodoo child
kissing the sky
on a wild side ride
to a mythical utopia
For I’m the real Fifth Beatle
The big band leader
Sergeant Major Dysmorphia
The unseen Black Wiggle
So … get your game face on
Let’s play and have giggle
๐ ๐ ๐
If your Horoscope
gives no cause for hope
hop aboard my alien starship
hidden just behind
the Hale-Bopp comet
Let’s all drink the Kool-Aid
and try not to vomit
as we transcend
in a puff of hocus pocus
to my secret paradise
via Constellation Ophiuchus
the Serpent-Bearer
of the Thirteenth House
Come try your luck
on my new
and improved Zodiac
I am the meat
in your hero sandwich
The speech writer
of delusional greatness
I am the angel of deception
hand feeding
a captive audience
With chains forged
in the fires of history
I am the blacksmith
of despair and misery
I’m the choke hold
just above your shoulder
as I set the agenda
for Big Brother
I truly am
that dog whistler’s mother
So please pay attention
to my disinformation
I am the one and only
Alternative Saviour
๐ ๐ ๐
My gift to you is desolation
Desecration upon the Earth
A taste of toxic genocide
on the wild side … of a planet
being plundered to death
Against me you have
but one sure weapon
the name of Jesus Christ
The panacea to my agenda
The author of creation
who holds it all together
God’s visible manifestation
The pure expression
of true divinity
His word like a sword
gives me the cold turkey
and gets me on the run
In Christ
resistance
is your best defence
But please . . .
don’t tell anyone
๐ ๐ ๐
Words & Images:
David B. Redpath ยฉ 2020
“Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help, inasmuch as
one can cope with a comprehensible
darkness.”
~ Carl Jung
“Look out your window, baby,
there’s a scene you’d like to catch
The band is playing “Dixie”,
a man got his hand outstretched.
Could be the Fuhrer.
Could be the local priest.
You know sometimes Satan
… he comes as a man of peace.”
“Democracy don’t rule the world.
You better get that in your head.
This world is ruled by violence.
But I guess that’s better left unsaid.”
~ Bob Dylan
“Never give up. Never give in.
Keep the faith. Keep your eyes
on the prize.”
~ John Lewis (Baptist Minister)
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they will be called children of God.”
โMy kingdom is not of this world.”
~ Jesus Christ
Image #63 ~ by Multiple Michael
https://multiplemichael.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/image-63-2/
This reads like a call-and-response with “Sympathy for the Devil.”
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I have to admit that those
Rolling Stones did provide
some inspiration, Liz ๐
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Honestly? Wow!
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Thank you, Angela ๐
I did feel that there was someone
by my shoulder helping to write
this one ๐ ๐ถ๏ธ
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You must have been on the “hold my beer” mode, lol.
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Well, now that you mention it,
I am expecting repercussions ๐ค
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Nah, you’re good!
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My guardian angel
has had quite enough ๐
But he did stand by me
when the going got rough ๐
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I agree with Liz! I was humming along… “pleased to meet you…” Awesome stuff!
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Thank you exceedingly, Janet ๐
My earnest advice, if you ever
hear … “Please allow me to
introduce myself …” is to run๐โโ๏ธ
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Right!?! Yeah I think I learned that in recovery. ๐๐
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I’m still reeling from a blast
of divine healing ๐โก๐๐
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Wow, that was really something. Amen and amen ๐ฏ
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A soulful thank you, Larissa,
for that positive double ๐ ๐ ๐
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Bless you infinitely, Larisa ๐๐ ๐ถ๏ธ
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Wow! You should put that to music. An amazing write David with so many memorable lines ๐
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Thank you in the extreme, Christine.
I did write this whilst fully awake ๐
yet I’d rather it to be a bad dream ๐ด
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I know right? So much angst in the world right now. It is like living in a nightmare. It reminded me a little of that old Billy Joel song โ We didnโt start the fireโ only everything has quadrupled in its intensity since that was written ๐ I really like your work ๐๐ โฎ๏ธ โ๏ธ
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One of my two favourite Billy Joel
songs, along with ‘Piano Man’ ๐น
Thanks for the vote of confidence,
Christine ๐ Your kind words are
music ๐ถ to my ears ๐
It was with some trepidation that
I uploaded this last posting ๐ค ๐ถ๏ธ
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Iโm happy you did post it. Many of us are feeling it too David. โบ๏ธ
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May the Prince of Peace
bless and protect you ๐ ๐
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Thank you kind sir! ๐
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This writing of yours is crazy powerful & intense….
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Thanks Navin ๐
I did try to water it down
with some sulphuric acid
and a dash of bitter lemon๐น๐
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You’re welcome David….
Quite acidic โจ
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Done โ๏ธ Thanks Navin ๐
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Thank you, David โจ
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Wow I lost count of the number of references you used there. Love the breathless rap like tone too. Good work! ๐
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Thank you most kindly, Shruba ๐
I felt if flow like effluence out from
the wild blue yonder. Hence the
ambiguous title ๐
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Ah I see. Thatโs what the title signifies. Beautiful!
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This poem packs a powerful wallop, David.
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That you immeasurably, Chris.
I was up to my waist in effluence,
so I on my waders and boxing
gloves ๐ฅ๐
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I dreamt myself a boxer in the night, willing some man or angel or demon guide my hands for a fight. Blessingway now to see the fortuna of your dark-bright. Words can’t say much now… but thanks for the light.
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Thanks for catching the caravan๐ช
Lia. I’m stumbling to the nearest
oasis โฒ (or is it a mirage?) lost in
the dry Sierra. The stars are coming
out โญ In the clearing stands the
poet, and a boxer by trade, seeking
out the poorer quarters where the
ragged people hang out ๐
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๐
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I can hear you. It’s deafening.
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๐ THANKS BOJANA
FOR PERSEVERING! ๐
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Great!
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Grazie, Luisa.
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โค๏ธ๐ ๐ธ
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Outstanding!
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Thank you very much, Rita ๐
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One mighty outpouring!
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I guess the dam must’ve broke ๐
Thanks for reading, Ben ๐ ๐
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Agree with, Liz also. We have one large ๐๐ on our backs. Thatโs needs to be gone, hopefully soon. Always a great write from you David.
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Greatly appreciated, Elle ๐ ๐
That hairy gorilla ๐ฆ
swinging about
on the state of empire
will sooner or later
fall off that golden tower โฌ๏ธ
for a roasting taste of hell fire ๐ฅ
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๐๐ปand we can then ๐ฅณ๐
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Fantastic!
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Merci beaucoup, Tiffany.
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I wouldn’t mind trying your new and improved horoscope.
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In the corner of memory
of Moody Blues lyrics
Basilike
you’ve reminded me ๐๐
Ride, ride my see-saw,
Take this place
On this trip
Just for me.
My world is spinning around,
Everything is lost that I found.
People run, come ride with me,
Let’s find another place that’s free.
Ride, ride my see-saw,
Take this place
On this trip
Just for me.
Be it sight, sound,
the smell, the touch.
There’s something,
Inside that we need so much,
The sight of a touch,
or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak
with roots deep in the ground.
The wonder of flowers,
to be covered, and then to burst up,
Thru tarmack, to the sun again,
Or to fly to the sun
without burning a wing,
To lie in the meadow
and hear the grass sing,
To have all these things
in our memories hoard,
And to use them,
To help us,
To find…
God…
Why do we never get an answer
When we’re knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
‘Cause when we stop
and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed
~ The Moody Blues
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Wow! I liked that very much!
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I’ve been know to get
a bit Moody ๐ too ๐
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Understandable ๐
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I do have a dose
of them
Lock Down Blues ๐ถ
For once again
the land down under
is a convict island ๐
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Uh oh, I see… I hope you are well.
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Can’t complain, Basilike.
I’ve actually never been
so flat out busy.
Staying safe ๐
“Stake my future
on a hell of a past
Looks like tomorrow
is a coming on fast
Ain’t complaining
about what I got
Seen better times
but who has not
Silvio silver and gold
Won’t buy back the beat
of a heart grown cold
Silvio I gotta go
Find out something
only dead men know”
~ Bob Dylan
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Beautiful!
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Thanks JT ๐ ๐ ๐ถ๏ธ
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This is so amazing!!
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Thanks for reading, Nawazish ๐๐
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Ooh that last line got me, David. ๐
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I like to save the best till last, NZ.
I always leave dessert ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ
till just before bed ๐ ๐ค
as that sugar rush โฌ๏ธ
goes straight to my head ๐
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Ha! I like dessert too. ๐
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Dang!!!! In a good way๐
Pat
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Pat, you’ve just reminded me
of a Roger Miller ditty
with which many might agree …
๐ถ”Dang me, dang me.
They oughta take a rope
and hang me.
High from the highest tree. ๐ถ
Woman, would you weep for me?”
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LOL! I never heard that one before. Though I do remember Roger Miller. That made me laugh out loud…. And for the record I don’t agree with those who would agree๐. Now I’m off to Google to check that one out๐
Pat
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A poetic masterpiece, David.
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I especially appreciate the comment
Chris. Especially being from an uber
alfa literati such as yourself ๐
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Sixties rap and roll! A masterpiece, David!
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A tale of slugs, snails,
and things not nice . . .
but I appreciate ya
readin’ and rollin’ the dice.
Thanks Eugenia ๐ ๐
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My pleasure! ๐
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Lyrics which rap. Amazing work.
The quote by Bob Dylan is perfect. I love that quote.
Hopping on the space craft to travel to another planet, have thought about this a lot. ๐
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Than you, Kritika ๐ I’m totally
wrapped in your comment ๐
I had some time for reflection
waiting for that midnight train
to Udaipur, at the Jaipur railway
station ๐
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My pleasure. Hahaha
A little similar to Ruskin Bond you sound.
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This made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, David. Chilling. You have, once again, hit it out of the park. Bravo!
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Greatly appreciated, Anna ๐
As Van Morrison once said . . .
“I had my eyes closed in the dark.”
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