All about: war

Anti-war rap
your war-mongering sounds cheap like sophistry collecting malappropriated trophies for your bloated ego we don't like that amigo, spare us your credo of greater Russia or security for your Moscovite pricks you ain't nothing like the horseman on your old profile pic you small dick coward will be pounded by hiMARS and howitzers all of ...
Kindergarten War
"There will always be bullies in the kindergarten", the teacher said, slapped Rudi hit Ukai in the face. - "But look, he has a bloody nose. Can we at least give him a band aid?" said a brave girl. "Quick, but don't make Rudi angry." Two children walked up to Ukai and gave her a ...
Open letter to the Russian Embassy
Dear Russian Embassy, As a Dutch citizen, I would like to express my explicit condemnation of the atrocities that the Russian Federation is currently conducting in Ukraine, as well as the attempts to deny these horrendous acts in the television program Buitenhof by your ambassador, Mr. Shulgin. My heart goes out to all the victims ...
The Playground
The chubby boy points his toy gun at another boy His great grandfather fought in the war. This is not a guess. I am sure. His great grandmother was maybe a comfort lady to the invaders. But his gun is only made of plastic. He will be forgotten. I look at the boys. I see ...
Reading: A Dirge by Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was an American poet and Trappist monk in Kentucky who published over 70 books including a very popular autobiography. I selected a poem about the victims of war (Merton was a social activist) because I like its powerful language: A dirge Some one who hears the bugle neigh will know How cold ...
Reading: Winged And Acid Dark by Robert Hass
Robert Hass (b. 1941) is another famous American poet who served as Poet Laureate of that immense country and won a Pulitzer prize. I read one of his poems today that I think is representative. In other words: vintage Hass: Winged and acid dark A sentence with "dappled shadow" in it. Something not sayable spurting ...
Reading: Anthem for doomed youth by Wilfred Owen
English war poetry from the trenches. After Sassoon I read a poem from the pen of remarkable Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), one great poor soul from the culled generation of World War I: Anthem for doomed youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? ____Only the monstrous anger of the guns. ____Only the stuttering rifles' ...
The Next World War
This rant sprouts from the documentary film "Supermarket Secrets", a strong piece of investigative journalism concerning the UK food retail industry that came out a few years ago. I watched it with disbelief and tears in my eyes, disgust, then anger. This poor little apple that is not perfectly symmetrical like the snobby faces of ...