The knowledge of salmon fishing, or, the salmon of knowledge fishing?


I often ponder,
fishing, for that
ever, evasive, iridescent
salmon, called, Knowledge,
and, though, my line, hook and rod,
are true,
the truth, I yearn for, is, always..
over yonder,
because..
the victors on this planet,
always, hold the pen,
that scripts the present,
and, their school of thought,
is not, an Ichthyological college,
but, rather, a pseudohistory, a fallacy, regurgitated, from evil minds,
by ignorant mouths, to innocent pods.


I smell something fishy, don’t you?


You learn thoroughly,
to hold your tongue,
to earn only currency,
do right, not wrong,
do not question,
ignorance enlarged,
leave circumspection,
to those in charge,
believe the lies,
believe the truths,
believe those, that deny,
your own abuse,
you have a choice,
you have your freedom,
you have a voice,
you can go and see them..


The knowledge, you now, so desperately, seek, has, finally, been unredacted..


And, when, “too little”, arrives, that, little bit, “too late”..
You come to realise..


You had a choice.
You had your freedom.
You had a voice.
Look.. there they are..
in the mausoleum.



The Sun never sets…


The English language

steals away

at your very heart

it was

seized by foreign hands

in their taking of foreign lands

they never wore pyjamas

until they renamed it India

and there never were shenanigans

before Ireland suffered similar

we say chow down oftentimes

and never think it over

of the Opium that caused a war

sailing to Fuzhou from Dover

or of those solemn slaves

sold into their shackled sauna

from West Africa where that yellow

fruit was always called banana

and across Africa to the East

the collabo certainly happened

In North and South Sudan or Kenya

where the Jenga is often flattened

the boomerang seems to circle

and find it’s way back home

the Aboriginals knew that

when the Empire took

(and went)

back to it’s throne.


What is ‘this’?


“If you are the big tree, let me tell you that

We are the small axe, sharp and ready

Ready to cut you down (well sharp)

To cut you down” – Bob Marley


Maybe we wouldn’t have to worry

about this dystopia or Thought Police

if we’d paid attention and weren’t in a hurry

protected our rights and thought of peace

made sure that every little boy and girl

had their freedoms unequivocally ingrained

in an uncodified constitution of the world

that wouldn’t commodify their names,

their games, their chats, their brains

wouldn’t commodify their friendships

wouldn’t commodify in exchange

for our chance to ever end;

this.


This; globalist

end of days.

This; oval disk

of human waste.

This; cashless

new society.

This; ask less

pay more, die early.


This; ‘how much

more can you take?’

This; smiling punch

you in the face.

This; ‘whatever’

disillusionment.

This; forever

can’t afford the rent.

This; take a pill

to ease the pain.

This; makes you ill

over again.

This; wants your life

to be a mess.

This; gives more strife,

more bills, more stress.


This; is worse in every single way.

This; works you til your dying day.

This; takes much

more

than pounds of flesh.

This; doesn’t need

your

excuse for less.


This; what happened

to our fledgling crop?

This happened…

We ‘the many’

never forced

‘the few’ powerful to

STOP.


Aye, Aye Captain


Boatswain or Bosun?

Both sons of oceans,

flags and masts,

packed bags

and

chequered pasts.


WHAT. SAY. YOU.


As Jolly Roger flies –

skull and cross bones

and hallowed eyes

for the lost, the loners.

Putting the onus

on a prophetic prize

that’s –

to be a Pirate;

swashbuckled but

never broken.


SIGN. YOUR. LIFE. AWAY.


X marks the spot.

All hands on deck

me hearties, me hearties.


AYE. AYE. CAPTAIN.


Crossed t and i’d dot.

Here’s to self respect

on nautical safari.


I’d rather be a Pirate

than a pen pushing slave.

Never clock-in or get fired

by the crest of a wave.


HOIST. THE. MAINSAIL.


I’d sing a sea shanty

from morning to night.

Watch ocean foam

romance glee

in bountiful

candle light.


EARL. Y. IN. THE. MORNING.


So, Ahoy matey!

Don’t walk the plank.

Send Long John Silver

me thanks.

I’ll swab the deck and

grow my beard long

and hair lank.


Sail the seven seas over

so shiver me timbers

‘til peg leg,

parrot and

scallywag

have sank.


DEAD. MEN. TELL. NO. TALES.


That’s the life for me

treasure troves of free-

dom. Far away from lock and key;

roving on the highest seas.

Argh, to be a Pirate,

a buccaneering riot.

No more hypocrisy

from government or tyrant…


CLEAVE. THEM. TO. THE. BRISKET.


But it’s all a dream

and I wake to no change but the climate.

After realisation is gleaned

in my attempts to scream

all that comes forth is a

sigh and

then…

Quiet.


ON. TO. DAVY. JONES’. LOCKER.


Freedom’s Death


“The Queen is dead.”


She’s eulogised

but nobody mourned our freedom

passing

into hands of tyrannical dread.


Subjugation disguised,

whilst liberty shaped tear drops fall on and on.

Everlasting…


Another lost lesson on

empirical oppression.