- Apr 30
I liked this poem and agree with it, except I don’t think Civil War is as possible nowadays. Left foot, right foot, left foor, right foot – history marches on.
daniel
From: ourpalnietzsche@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ourpalnietzsche@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of johnstewartmoore
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Subject: [Our Pal Nietzsche ] 200 years after Shelleyhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45118/england-in-1819
England in 2019
The land divided as never before.
Leastways since the Civil War
As white supremacy our history trashed
Replaced by the triumph of the great unwashed
For left and right equality is a totem
The right retracts like a cock into its scrotum
The logic of the left stretches lower and lower
Till all that is left is irrational power
Art reduced to what it’s there to escape
The promised release from crude desire
Dead white maleness to chuck on the fire
Enlightened eras pass
In Rome they turned into bishops
The old senatorial class
Though heresy is classed as hate.
We have a chance to avoid that fate
With revolution, easily missed
Little recognised or understood
The lid is off and victimhood
Is no longer so holy and good.
What they call the liberal elite
Begins to totter on its feet.
Running scared to discover at length
That other voices are finding their strength.
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