You gentlemen who think you have a mission
To purge us of the seven deadly sins
Should first sort out the basic food position
Then start your preaching, that's where it begins
You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well
Should learn, for once, the way the world is run
However much you twist or whatever lies that you tell
Food is the first thing, morals follow on
So first make sure that those who are now starving
Get proper helpings when we all start carving
What keeps mankind alive?
What keeps mankind alive?
The fact that millions are daily tortured
Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
In keeping its humanity repressed
And for once you must try not to shirk the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
I have a recording of Tom Waites singing this.
It always gets people up and dancing at parties.
Socialist Parties?
ReplyDeleteNot really Pers.
ReplyDeleteMore of a mixed bag - we even have some Greens.
We put them in a corner and pelt them with organic fruit.
I read that last line as, "Mankind is kept alive by beastly cats."
ReplyDeletePuss, Terry Pratchett once wrote something like "cats amusingly tolerate human beings until somebody invents a can opener that can be operated with a paw".
ReplyDeleteIt's not that depressing
ReplyDeleteI'll see if I can scratch up something really, really depressing for you next week, Squib.
ReplyDeletePromises, promises...
ReplyDeleteGee, tough audience.
ReplyDeleteIt's depressing enough for me Ramon, if that makes you feel better. I'm normally a fairly jolly bloke.
ReplyDeleteA satisfied customer!
ReplyDeleteThanks Wari.
ReplyDeleteI feel that if I can bring a little gloom into somebody's day, then it's not all wasted.
Yeah it's not that depressing.
ReplyDeleteI once had an argument that food is first, democracy second.
Do you agree? I think I still believe so. If people are starving, they can't fight for their rights. The person I was arguing with was so adamant he was right; that people will always choose democracy and personal freedoms over anything else.
But not if you're dead.
it's not that depressing
ReplyDeleteStop saying that!!!!!!
That poem is very sad.
ReplyDeleteThank you Pepsi.
ReplyDeleteYou and Wari are my new bestest friends.
Burroughs' version will tip you over the edge.
ReplyDeleteAlthough he's not much of a Marxist
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ReplyDeleteI hereby dub this uplifting poem the Walking on Sunshine of the Marxist scene.
ReplyDeleteIt could only be improved by Katrina and the Waves, or possibly Hi-5, covering it.
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ReplyDeleteNo record collection is complete without a copy of Katrina and the Waves' cover of "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder".
ReplyDeleteWhat depresses me is the lack of context in this poem. I read and re-read and I still can't tell who he is hating on.
ReplyDeleteIt's Bertolt Brecht, RG.
ReplyDeleteHe sort of hates everybody.
And I think Alex is having a long chat with his/her gender re-assignment counsellor.
Ramon, I'll only be your new bestie if you promise that you wont make me sing The Internationale with you when you've had too many beers.
ReplyDeleteI thought Alex was one of the regulars logged in with another name, I thought there was a few of you who log in and comment here with different names???
Sorry Pepsi, I can't promise that.
ReplyDeleteI make everybody sing The Internationale with me when I've had too many beers.
Really Pepsi? How interesting.
ReplyDeleteALEX WE LOVE YOU, COME BACK! I don't care if you're a boy or a girl.
I don't post with alter egos on here. I *have* alter egos, but I don't use them here. I think Boogey has a few, but he might have retired them.
ReplyDeleteI hope I didn't chase Alex away by questioning his/her gender. Come back Alex!
I'm glad you posted the depressing Marxist poem, Ramon. I'm not going to argue whether it's really all that depressing or not, that's pretty relative after all.
ReplyDeleteI didn't find it depressing. I found it more whiny, like a drunk socialist actor in Northcote at a party.
ReplyDeleteI went to a restaurant for someone's birthday, and she had all her actor mates there. One was in Socialist Alliance. Anyway, the waitress asked what he would like to order and he snapped, "Well I can hardly order anything seeing as I have NO MONEY!"
She ignored him and moved to me.
I ordered the salmon with Moreton Bay Bug on top.
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I suspect Alex is watching us panic and sniggering to him/herself. S/he'll be back.
I thought only priests had altar egos.
ReplyDeleteI ordered the salmon with Moreton Bay Bug on top.
ReplyDeleteYou're kidding me.
That's like ... an overload of awesome.
Can they do that? Are they allowed?!
If "beef & reef", and "surf N turf" are old hat, then "reef & grief" (cage capture and fish farming) may replace them.
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ReplyDeleteWell, that's what Babelfish says it means...
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ReplyDeleteAnd that is from google translate. The "javelin hitting flying machines/fire a cannon at airplanes" bit has me intrigued. Terrorist plot disguised as spam? Bad translation? Anyone understand this?
My apologies, venerable kinfolk, but I won't allow spammer scum to leave their crap around like that.
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