Including One Single Impression, Weekend Wordsmith and Acrostic Only.
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PAPPA RAZZI
Modern Comedy
I find a problem with much modern comedy – it isn’t funny. It seems
to be based on insult or inane behaviour. Comedy proper is a process
of illogic, where a statement or action confronts the rationality of the
experiencer, causing a self-defence mechanism called laughter. True
comedy is so subtle that its practice is no laughing matter.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Eye On the World – Choose an Essay
HEALTH NEWS: The UK growing more
fearful, it seems, causing rise in mental illness.
This is what happens when a society loses meaning.
WORLD NEWS: General Elections begin in India but can
democracy exist in such a big country? Can a Parliament be
representative here?
BRIT NEWS: Local councils to be watched by govt for using
anti-terror laws to increase snooping. Shame it took
public to show problem.
BRIT NEWS: A million householders in negative equity;
another 1m close. And there’s talk that we may
have turned a corner. Wanna bet!
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FUTURE ZONE
What’s ahead … and Beyond!!!
JUST ONE WORD
The future holds our destiny,
Tech for good or enmity,
Driving one word to ultimate power,
Providing a button that can devour,
Everything as the missiles hit,
Our leader safe in his pit;
Godly, he takes out man and bird,
For: In the End Was the Word
DREAM LIFE
Sci Fi: The boy had been having lots of dreams of late. He just lay
down and off he went again. This time it was a lovely dream, and
he felt at home with the person the dream made him become. Waking,
he turned round to the salesman and said: ‘I’ll have that one.’ After
all, things were so much easier now that you could have the
life you dream of.
THE LANGUID SPACEMAN
Languid spaceman, isn’t it time,
You went to planets, hoping to find,
ET and other magnificent stuff,
Even though it may be tough?
The tech’s been on the drawing board so long,
The aliens are wondering where we’ve gone,
Just orbiting the planet without any cred,
As if flies buzzing round something dead
OPPORTUNITY GAME
Ordeal of fire, proving yourself,
Pow! On the pyre, onerous smell;
Participants line up, having a go,
Only to duck, gladiator show,
Reduced to your genes, future guaranteed,
Tuned to the memes, orchestrated seed;
United society, the new way to be,
Normal entity, no you or me
It was a hard fight, but now he has won,
The fires burn all night, he can now have a son
Youth wins outright, eugenics begun
© Anthony North, April 2009
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The word is: languid
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Tell a Tale
Still time. Tell a tale set on an evening
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