Days Like These
By Ewan
I have put these poems (and a few stories) together because they share some themes...
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Americana

This is an old one, from well before "President Trump" became a distinct possibility. Looking back at it now, I think it shows the ground where such wild weeds can grow...
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And Through the Door

As you see, I am not without words, but I am beginning to be without hope...
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Better Than Chance

And still we play craps at the polling booths...
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Brocken Spectre

Image source http://thenauticalphotographer.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/the-spectre-of-br... BTW I haven't spelt Broken wrong, Brocken is in the Harz Mountains...
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Clean Skin

A tiny square of printed circuit holds measurements and calibrations. DNA and iris scan, digitised fingerprints proclaim identity. I was born in...
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Confederacy of Dunces

how it is...
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Dénouement

"This is the end, beautiful friend, the end," The Doors
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Dream On

... if you can. The Footnote lists authors of inspirational/source material...
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First

this... just this... Picture from http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/ A quote from that site: " If any one of these groups--the British, the Jewish, or the administration--stops agitating for war, I believe there will be little danger of our involvement. " Charles Lindbergh- September 11, 1941 Best avoided.
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Hocus Pocus

Hocus pocus, flim flam... we believe, we believe
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Just a Shout Away

Why what Germany does will matter, and why it might not be good... For my own part, I do not accept that sexual assaults on a minority of women are an acceptable consequence of immigration. I am aware that some of the Cologne assaults were committed by 2nd generation citizens. Note, I do not advocate restriction of movement. I would advocate the prosecution to the fullest extent of perpetrators of this kind of crime whatever their circumstances. Whose side do you take? Do you understand the woman in this story?
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Keep Calm And Carry On

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel... and what scoundrels we elect. Those who would wrap themselves in the flag should remember that for many it is a burial shroud...
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Kites and Knives

Inspired by an @salenagodden tweet on twitter today... We have such short memories... Image by oxfam international, licensed for non-commercial re-use
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Linz Realschule Old Boys, Class of 1905

Strange school-fellows...
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More Trouble Every Day

Title is borrowed from a Frank Zappa song, a staple of his live shows throughout his career, written originally in 1967 after the Chicago riots... this poem was written this morning and will not be performed live ever. A line is quoted from the song.
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Murderous Stupidity
The title is from an Op Ed piece in the sundays today. Likely to offend. Just like a film called "Four Lions" did. Neither poetry nor prose, but I hesitate to say prosetry. Monologue.
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One Nation

It is what it is... this is mid way between found poetry and allusion (or Ezra and Tom's Thievery) anyway...
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Others

The echoes vibrate, we detach ourselves, admiring the sleek lines of the train, preferring diesel-electric over steam. We forget the carriages and...
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Outery (Salt of the Earth)

A companion piece to "Trumpery" I voted in, by the way.
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Shadow of a Gunman

I'm not explaining this...
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The List

The Home Secretary's list will be nothing like Schindler's ...
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The Outbreak of Certainty

Certainty... a dangerous thing...
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These Are The Days

Not narrative or lyric poetry... turn left here.
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Thumb Pricks

you know what that means and indeed it does...
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Trump Talk

he will win, I just know it...
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Trumpery

Why it might happen...
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When You're a Star

Do I really need to explain this?
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Where Were You When...
this is more or less where I was... although it was two different ones.
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While the Earth Stands Still

Puzzling? Why not?
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Written on the Wall

...
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The Kiss and the Money

Whatever happened to the Labour Party of the working class?
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Put Out More Flags

Posted on another site on the 6th of February 2015, over 2 years ago. Not so ephemeral, after all.
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There, At the World's End

You can decide what it means... that's always fun, isn't it?
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Mysteries and Secrets

Not about flowers or butterflies, move along...
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Off the Isle of Hendiadys

It's not on the map, but then... neither are these people...
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Moab

Ah... well... blasphemous, perhaps... but the times we live in are only fit for blasphemy...
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The Chaos Intact

I'll stop soon... Companion piece to "Mysteries and Secrets", although everything in "Days Like These" has associated themes... (He wrote, hopefully). Image is gif, usage acc. wikipedia commons.
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Time and Chance

Ecclesiastes 9:10-12 The scriptures inspire me, but only to write things...
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Hooray for the Circus

IP... long time since I've done one of these...
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Cutting Velvet for Raincoats

hmm... another vignette of the horror show on the other side of the Atlantic. picture wikimedia commons.
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Wheatfields

I voted by post a while ago... For all the difference a drop can make... Image source is http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ licence is creative commons CC0
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An I for an I

Lex Talionis: as out of date as the books which quote it. image is used in accordance/as required on its wikipedia commons page. Photographer Sven Storbeck
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They

I'm seen as stand-offish, because I don't actually join in these conversations at all... image released into the public domain by Magalhães at nl.wikipedia
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Where is the Genius?

Image made with imgflip. by author. The words are Jonathan Swift's. Where is the genius? I can see where the confederacy is...
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The Rule of Three

"It seems that every day, is just another rotten mess, people say it's gonna end soon, but when it will I can only guess" More Trouble Every Day Frank Zappa 1967. Image is free stock image from http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15715
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Empty Manifesto

Read it out in the manner of Christopher Ecclestone reading Evidently Chickentown... clean the mirror afterwards. Image from Pixabay Free for commercial use, no attribution required CC0 Creative Commons
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"Meh-tha tur-ah?"

The title? You'll have to read it to see what that means... Picture is the Bridge at Belleek, which will form part of a hard UK Eire border, should it come to that. Source is wikipedia commons.
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Phoenix Night

Fake-news pioneer Paul Horner, whose hoaxes drew international attention on the Internet and during the 2016 presidential election, died in Phoenix on Sept. 18, officials confirmed. He was 38. Image photographer: Alan Stark used in accordance with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
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Fall of a Monarch

Topical, huh... yesterday's chip paper... Image is wikipedia commons... Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0 Generic
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The Road to Mandalay Bay
How many more times? Think of a number... Bold lines are a paraphrasing of Numbers 1:4 Image is wikipedia commons. Used in accordance with CC 3.0: image is by Kris 1123
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We

one more for "Days Like These" Image used in accordance with Creative Commons 4.0 : source Wikipedia Commons owner Venus Juanda
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Pedal Ceramics

No more heroes, any more... (or we need to talk about KevinS) This image is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice . Source Wikipedia Commons.
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Understanding America

2 of the required 7 layers, if lucky... Image is a collage of two separate Pixabay.com images used in accordance with CC0 licence.
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Paint and Pellets

New York, 31 Oct/1 Nov 2017 Image is collage made from two images taken from Wikipedia Commons. Paint pellets Qz10 in acc w/CC A-SA 3.0 BB slugs Ari x in acc w/CC A-SA 3.0
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Under The Blue Roof

More for "Days Like These"... walk on by... Image is from the British Museum and is in the public domain. I suggest you read that poem instead :-D
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Stand Up (Or Be Counted)

I say, I say, I say: when did you last hear a joke start like that? When the cheeky chappie tossed his career off a cliff. Remember the old Python...
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These Are The Days (Bombs and Pamphlets)

This the last thing to be posted in "Days Like These" (stop cheering at the back). image is in the Public Domain as it is an image produced by a US Govt department
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so many incontinent words

"performance peace be upon you" image author's own
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Gabba Gabba Hey

Read carefully. If you are offended by the contents of the links in the footnote, then perhaps you haven't understood the poem, that's my fault. Image source Wikipedia Commons and is out of copyright.
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These Are The Good Times

The flower is an Anemone... a symbol of forlorn hope, some say... Image is from Pixabay and licence is CC0 with no requirement for attribution
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The Man Who Knew Too Little

You can either read this first, or read it after... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-too-little.html It may not make any difference Image is from pixabay.com and licence is CC0
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Who Indeed?

Topical, allusory. Walk on by. Image is from maxpixel.com and licence is CC0 Minor edits Sat 24 March 2018
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Drums Across the Mohawk

Goodbye for a while... Image is pixabay.com and CC0
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Ogre

Atop Pike's Peak Margaret wrote a poem: sure are crowning their good with brotherhood, nowadays, huh? Image is CC0 from Pixabay.
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Mayday

It's not about aeroplanes... Image is from wiki commons.
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Waiting for George

Capra is one of my favourite directors, but I don't think many politicians have watched his films. Image source is wikipedia commons and in the public domain. WIP 0830 edited 7 Dec 2018:
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Jump Rope Politics

What it says... WIP Image is from the National Archives at College Park [Public domain]
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A Diet of Worms

Political, pass by, if you like. Image published in book authored by Bernhard Rogge - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77201586
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#

you'll have to read it to find out then, won't you? Image is from pixabay, no attribution required
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Shouting at the Television

What it says on the tin. Relieved now, aren't you? Image source is wikipedia.org used in accordance with fair use attribution , https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17602459
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These You Have Loved

yeah, well... image is copyright John Garghan https://www.flickr.com/photos/johngarghan/14897236961 licence is CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Obverse

nothing new here, carry on... (Carry On... now there's an idea, Carry On Leaving. Politics as double entendre). Anyway, as the image used is from The New European's downloadable Brexit Horror Masks, one would assume permission to use it here is implied, since they don't mind if I download a copy to wear.
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St Boris's Day

Just effing read it. (I snarled) Image is in the public domain. Source wikipedia commons.
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Store and Save

Well then, the government will be sending out a "What to Do in the Event of No Deal" leaflet. I expect it will be as useful as the old "Duck and Cover" campaign, eh? Image out of copyright source wiki commons.
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words

yeah well, sticks and stones and all that... sure... Image source is flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmatt/27634194840 photo by Matt Brown used in acc. w/ Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
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Twice In a Lifetime

Well,you know... Days like these.. Image from Kenneth Clarke's Twitter account copyright TheBrexitComic.com (worth a visit).
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Blatherskites

Image author's own. More state of the nation stuff I'm afraid.
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We Fools

Oh yes, still banging on about this kind of thing... Image from flicker.com. No known copyright issues, part of internet book archive, original source 1903 edition of Tragedy of King Lear.
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Friday Afternoon in The Fleece

A bagatelle, don't bother if you don't feel like it. I took the photo, so I'm using it.
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The Stealth of Great Misfortune

Ah yes... well. It's what's happening, so I can't avoid writing about it. No-one's forcing you to read it though. Image source Pixabay.com public domain.
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Imbecile Rapacity

Compliments of the season. Image attribution and licence Jim Champion / Christmas lights on Lyndhurst High Street, New Forest / CC BY-SA 2.0
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Full Sail

Let's hope it doesn't turn out like this. Image by De Windstoot, in the Public Domain as it's such old art.
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We Are Awaiting Developments
The planned 500,000 dwellings will go ahead: these will all be affordable housing, subject to credit and criminal record checks . The 50,000 nurses...
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Numpty Dumpty

Silly. However, ridicule is the only weapon some of us have. Image concocted by the Doggerelist from PD Elements...
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El Nuevo Realismo No Realiza la Realeza*

Ah... well... it is what it is... Image created by me. Please look at the Nuevo Realismo section on Antonio Berni's wikivisually page
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The Wisest Fool in Washing Town
What it says... image is by rept0n1x source: wikipedia commons. Used under:- Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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"___"

That's got you thinking... sorry if you're disappointed.
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The Low Men

Well, I am... Image has been released into the public domain by George Hodan (publicdomainpictures.net)
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A Hymn for Silent Bells

No explanation needed, surely? Picture is from pxhere.com and is free to use. CC0 PD
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The White Knight is Speaking Backwards

I'm sure you'll work it out. It's less a rabbit-hole, more a rabid-hole that we've gone down. Image in PD, source is https://spartacus-educational.com/PRmosley.htm
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Powerhousing II

Part one is just called "Powerhousing": it comes before this one. I'm sure you'll find it if it's that important to you. image created by mar_d @ pixabay.com CC2.0 A
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Bonesack

Fairly self-explanatory. Inspired by a book by a fellow Unbound author and Guardian journalist. Author's permission for image use requested.
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Scapegrace
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Patience

I won't be engaging with any comments on this piece, just so you know. The more patience we have, the fewer patients there will be. Pandemonium and Pandemic have their roots in Ancient Greek Image is in the Public Domain, source Wikipedia Commons.
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The Age of Every Thing

Rant. Please note the title contains the words every thing, rather than everything Image is in the public domain, painted by Francis Danby, an Irish romantic artist of the 19th century.
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This Is The Sound

You'll work it out. Image composed by author from pd elements.
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Charivari

yes, well, I clapped too. Image source Wikipedia. Artist Grandville - public domain
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In This Dark Tomb

Keep going. Image from Pixabay by 41330
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Foundling

Odd. Just scroll on. Image is form flicker.com and used in acc. w/CC BY 2.0
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badges

I think you know what this is about. Image Alan Splodge used in acc w. CC-SA International 4.0
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Archipelago

I'm sure you'll work it out. image source wiki commons, created by Treehill, licence CC-SA 4.0
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Put Out More Flags

Just listen to yourselves. (I'm talking to you). Image source flickr.com, photographer Ian Patterson. Licence CC2.0 BY SA
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Now the Cars Are Moving.

Caw, Caw, Caw... Image free for non-commercial use from MaxPixel.
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Club Country

when the music takes you strange places await... image source distractionsoflola.tumbler.com no known copyright issues
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On the Shores of Chiasmus

Best read alongside this, or not. You can do as you like, after all https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/isle-hendiadys Image is free for non-commercial use from pixabay.com
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Won't Get Foiled Again

I was going to call this a rant, but only because I couldn't find "Howl of Existential Rage" as a category. So I'll say it's one of Miss Sal A. Neous's. Image created by author from PD elements.
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1966 and All That

And it wasn't all that. Image is free for non-commercial use from needpix.com
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Pataphor

It's derived from Pataphysics, it's more than a metaphor. Pataphysics is a fore-runner - not to say a strand - of surrealism. There, that's my title justified. Image is a screenshot, is it my copyright or wikipedia.org's? Good question. I take full responsibility.
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Follow The Leader

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants. (Anton Chekhov) Image source Pixabay Photographer Rob Glenister.
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"yinno"

It's about... you know... image source pikrepro.com
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Good King Borislav

Thought I'd write something festive... Image source wikipedia commons.
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A Life Like That

Freewrite, checked for spelling and grammar. Image source Pinterest.com. no known copyright issues.
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DILLIGAF?*

*With thanks to Kevin Bloody Wilson, who coined the acronymous term some 18 years ago AFAIK. It's very suitable for SM, LOL https://youtu.be/SKBct77-nYY (contains swearing). Image: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) dedicated to the Public Domain by Glenn Carstens Peters.
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The Golden Age

Not very subtle. Image is by Rory112233 source is wikipedia commons licence CC-SA by 4.0, I have edited it.
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A Message from the Prime Minister

"Talk, talk, talk, it's only talk, Elephant Talk" King Crimson Image tinkered with by author from PD imagery.
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The Green Man

If I explain it... well let's just say poems are like jokes, explain them and they don't work. CCA-SA 3.0 Licence Source Wikipedia SiGarb ( talk | contribs )
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Jabber Wiki

Going for my jab today. Image created at Photofunia.com
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Caper On

It's not night-time, it's not midsummer, but this dream is a nightmare. Licence CCA-2.0 source wikipedia.org. creator Matt Brown
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A Tragedy Indeed

I think you'll work it out. image source wiki-commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International
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If We Found the Next Pele

Likely to offend. There are two sides to every debate, it would be nice if there were common ground in the middle, rather than just No Man's Land. Image by Thomas Nugent source: Wikipedia. Licence CC by SA 2.0
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Keyboard Addick

Aren't social media great? The Addicks is the nickname of a London-based football club. Picture is of a Spoons called - appropriately enough - Spouter's Corner Image source is from flicker.com: the licence is CC-SA 2.0 and, by a charming coincidence, the photographer is one Ewan Munro.
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Respect

Yes, it's a rant, nothing new here. It's not subtle, but like I said, it's a rant... Oh, and satire. Levelling up? Dream on. Image source flicker.com. Licence CC2.0 attribution: Diego Sideburns
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The Patel Protocol

Not very interesting, but not improbable. Image from pxhere.com
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The Myth of Olympians

I have played and followed sport all my life. I am thrilled by the endeavour, skill and sheer bloody-mindedness it takes to be the best at any sport. I just can't see the point of these Olympics, which are devalued by how they will be conducted. I really think a cancellation would have been better. Thousands of disappointed Olympian athletes, I know, but still... Image from wiki-commons fiddled with by me. Licence: CC BY 2.0
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In the Kush

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Image from Public Domain Pictures CC-PD 1.0
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Bad Objects

I'm sure you'll figure it out. Image created by me at cooltext.com
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Mostly Stalinist Conditions

Self-explanatory Image made from pd/free to use components by me.
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Anniversary Rhyme

I actually wrote this for a different numbered anniversary. Found it today and changed one letter to a capital. [See if you can guess which. A puzzle too, eh?] I may record it if I get around to it. Image is used in acc. w/ CC-by SA 2.0
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Imagine

Yeah, imagine. These are linked hai kan'ts, because hai kan't stand much more of this. Photo used by permission in exchange for attribution
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A Northern Song

Not by The Beatles Image is in the public domain - and I would like to see the real thing one day.
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A Carnival

"Weeell... Ah ain't never seen such a bunch a' hucksters, flim-flam artists, 3-card monte, double dealing scoundrels in ma life" A visitor to our own very special Carnival in the Palace of Westminster. Image: No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
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Playing the Cocks

I might have spelt a word wrong in the title. Image created by author from PD elements.
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It Seems Our Leader Is Unwell

Rant. Read by a very poor voice artist here... https://soundcloud.com/user-224867227/boris-for-soundcloud Image from wikicommons.org by Ikastolak1 : CC-SA 4.0 licence
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But I Am Not Writing Today

Well I'm not. Image is in the Public Domain.
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Moving to Poverty

Not yet, but who knows..?
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F*ck All The People!

Likely to offend, image created by author from non-copyright parts.
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Let's Hear It!

Yeah, well. Compromise is not a dirty word. Image free to use from Pixabay.com
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Another Country

I wrote this in May 2015. I have crystal balls. I do not know this past, save through the prism of books written at the time they're supposed to be depicting. For it was not like any past I experienced first hand. Nostalgia is seductive, reductive and contains the nationalist propagandist's biggest lies. Image created from CC0 original.
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I Will Ride

Anybody see Boris's bus crash interview with Susanna Reid? Unbelievable. image wikipedia commons.
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Being Galileo

Where we are. Image source publicdomainvectors.org
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This Circus Must Leave Town

Why did anyone think this buffoon would ever change?
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No Chips Left At The Westminster Casino

All in it together? No, it's us and them, and that's how they like it. Image created at photofunia.com
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What Is Remembered?

What is remembered is what is ... Image created by author, here
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The Lower Third

The lower third refers to any graphic including moving text that appears at the bottom of your TV screen...
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Winning Through

Sitcom as metaphor. I expect this one has a few episodes which would remain on the shelf should the BBC ever repeat them and that's fine too. Image is from the National Army Museum website.
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the small moments

What a day! How have we ended up with that gurning gargoyle in charge. Not even a pretence at having intellect or rigour. Jeez... Image made at canva from CC0 image.
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The Cincinnatus Kid

Well, it was the blond buffoon who mentioned him first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus Image from wikipedia and in public domain.
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A Confederacy of C*ntses

Image created by me from PD elements Audio available.
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IQRA (Read, Educate Yourself)

Photograph is by Twitter/@ZohalAzra No known copyright issues. IQRA is allegedly the first word revealed to Mohammad by God. It has the same arabic root letters as Qu'ran, the book.
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The Ecumenical Atheist

No layers of meaning here. Image made with PD elements by Author at canva.com.
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The New Maths Project

I wonder what really bad news this is distracting us from? Now with added audio! Image made by author from PD elements, at Canva.com
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More Politics For Beginners

The image reads " William was frankly bored. School always bored him. He disliked facts, and he disliked being tied down to detail, and he disliked answering questions. As a politician a great future would have lain before him. " Richmal Crompton predicting the rise of Boris Johnson in 'More William', first published in 1922. Image author's own.
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Not Much Cop

The barrel needs changing, it's not enough to claim there are just a few bad apples... image has no known copyright issues
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A Vicious Circle

When did centrism become such a bad thing? Why? Image is PD from PD Vectors.
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And We Move On

How it is. Image by storyset on freepik
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Women's Day

I think you'll know where I stand. No characters living or dead are based on anyone YOU know. Image by me from pd elements. .
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And The Fingers Point

No show without him... Unfortunately.
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Mirrors for Princes

(Brunellus and) The Mirror of Fools is a satire written by Nigel de Longchamps sometime around the turn of the 12th Century. What is this about? Hold it up to the mirror... it won't help. More old stuff. Image is PD
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Perhaps

I have no answers. If this provokes outrage, then that's good. Israel has the worst possible leader at the worst possible time. Why does a nation of Persians feel so strongly that Israel should not exist? (I am being disingenuous, it is nothing to do with ethnicity, surely we all know that?) Anyway, if your outrage leads to ill-thought out comments, I won't be answering them. No known copyright issues.
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Burnt Words

Recent update concerning the following appeared in the press at the weekend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri Base image a detail from wikipedia.org. Image "composited" @canva.com
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Empty M_______o

Well, I'm sure you'll work it out. Image made at canva from PD elephants.
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Boats

Yes, let them come. image CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 source Flicker.com
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"That's Entertainment!"

I'm sure you'll work it out. Image is PD!!! By some 19th century geezer called Guillaume.
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