Including Thursday Thirteen, ABC Wednesday, Search Engine Stories
and American Sandwich. With Thursday Thirteen lines of poetry.
POLLY TICKS
Govt Chaos
Modern government is infatuated by targets and central control. In
this way, an air of order seems to validate what they do. But order in
central government is always a disaster. Order must come where the
services are required, at the local, organised with the local in mind.
Such services would automatically appear chaotic to central
government. We need that chaos back.
EDITORIAL
This post is in two parts – newspaper and
magazine. Read either or both. It is also
a debating platform, so do join in. Don’t
forget to call again tomorrow.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Eye On the World – Choose an Essay
BRIT NEWS: Police to remove innocent
people from DNA database. About time. Are we
waking up to creeping totalitarianism? I do hope so.
HEALTH NEWS: Flu related absences from work have soared
by 20% in UK. I guess that’s the price for over-hyping the
swine flu threat.
BRIT NEWS: Labour ministers speaking out in favour,
or not, of Brown. jockeying for position. Knives
being sharpened? Are we in the last days?
Call back tomorrow for more NewsFlash
RATTLER’S TALE
A Voyage of the Imagination
P is for … PROPULSION
Warp it up, let it fly,
Starship blazing above the sky,
Anti-grav, floats so high,
We can reach those stars, if we try,
But no propulsion for the human mind,
In space travel we are far behind,
Not yet yearning to find other kind,
One day we may learn to shine
BUZZWORD
(American Sandwich)
He was the son of a bitch who killed poetry through multi media.
Sent them mad on the net with audio, video and psycheo.
Watched them all experience the ultimate word, get the buzz, and die.
LOTS OF LOVE
(Take One)
Fiction: He lay so still. She looked at his face, his hair, his misshaped
ears, the laughter lines by his eyes. Soon she found herself beside him
and she placed her arms around him. Maybe they would have stayed
like this forever, but when they were found, she was dead, too. And
they looked on, hand in hand, as their bodies were taken away.
LOTS OF LOVE
(Take Two)
Yes I do, I do love you
Nothing has ever been so true
But kiss you now
I’ll have to bow
Sorry, I’ve got Man Flu
© Anthony North, May 2009
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