thupa round 2: "Eyeless in Gaza" (420 hits)
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Submitted by Ex Lux Astrum (View user info) at 2009-01-02 19:47:12 EST
Preface: The title I gave this Uberpost, "Eyeless in Gaza", is a novel by Aldous Huxley. The title originates from a phrase in John Milton's Samson Agonistes:
'... Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver;
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him
Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves ...'
Watching the news this past week, I would add to Ben Franklin's phrase "Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes...."
...and jews killing arabs and arabs jews.....
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Thoughts From The Savage
(Recollections of the Divinity)
Godman he speaks of natural law
And describes the world (man)
in the raw-
Atoms and level one, they determine life
And cause no visible (harmful) strife;
Godman he speaks of Deity and rite
As man and ecosystem go fuck in the night.
Dream of your future and cry of your past
Then shed a tear and utter a sigh
For these will not forever last
And soon will wither, shrivel and die.
Brother slaughters brother, jews kill arabs,
Two thousand years of dung, scavenged by scarabs,
We vomit bile born of violence- future, present, past,
And having learned nothing, stare at the carnage, aghast.
Millennia of hate permeate the Holy land,
The blood of children irrigate desiccated sand,
Yet in that blood flows the common gene
That shapes similar eyes, nose, and broken dream;
The terrible tears of Jehovah and Allah,
The prayers of imam and rabbi and dalai lama
(Even the mantras of Hare Krishna-Hare Rama)
Cannot stop the manic bombs of Israel and Hamas.
So let it rain these myriad missiles of doom,
They say for both arab and jew, there is no room-
So crawl, uttering vitriol, to your self-wrought tombs,
Soon you'll burn in the glow of fission's glorious 'shrooms;
Body of believer and creature of thought
We search for answers not to be sought-
A population of vermin, organized rats
Crawling and squeaking over dry soul flats:
"O, eternal life", whines Godman sweetly
(Not realizing the world is melting discreetly)
The skyhole is dripping its azure blue,
And the sea is sloshing its last adieu.
"O, succulent savage", the Godman uttered...
(Causing festering faces to suddenly flutter)-
"Leg and Breast of Theology Pork, thou art Divine",
And Heaven did send the prophetic sign:
"...Breath of Life and thought of Mind,
We are not of the same kind:
You are...you are man, and I a God-
A member of the Eternal Pod."
Snort and grunt
Howl and groan
Strike with fury and stifle your moans,
Froth and fire all guts and desire,
Cherish your love and strangle your sire:
You who crawl, you bastards, you crawl in vain-
There's corruption in your hearts and guilt in your fame.
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2009-01-05 23:10:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You've clearly earned the win of our match-up. Kudos for actually working at a poem.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2009-01-05 17:40:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by YourNameHere (user info) at 2009-01-05 02:45:40 EST (#)
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Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-01-04 20:04:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-01-04 04:08:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2009-01-04 02:52:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Jebus H Monkey, this was way too heavy for a 3am read.
Ah, I'm going to bed. The troubles of the world will be there when I wake up.
Submitted by Replen (user info) at 2009-01-03 03:56:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2009-01-02 20:00:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It's been MOSTLY Jews killing Arabs lately, but what do you expect? Oh well, at least they got that one asshole and seven of his wives.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-01-02 19:49:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Absolute +2 material
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-01-02 19:49:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
excellent book.
might come back and change rating if i find i hate the poem.