The annual air show protest: A poem by Kevin Higgins

Warning: Very, very artsy.

The annual air show protest
by Kevin Higgins

U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are God
taking pneumatic drills to the sky.
The cat covers his ears and retires
to the back of the wardrobe.
Elsewhere, a demo gives old friends
somewhere to put their anger.
The man who, every chance he gets,
ticks you off for bearing false witness
against East Germany, hands out red balloons.
His moustache stops to congratulate itself.
His heartbeat hammers: Long Live Stalin!
Long Live Stalin! A guy with purple hair
offers Food Not Bombs to an elderly
white woman with dreadlocks.

You uproot weeds, tell yourself
if their dream republic got born,
the cat wouldn't be crouching
in the dark, but cold between slices
of questionable brown-bread
- all you'd have to eat - know
you're more likely to go
into the night on a unicycle
screaming: Free Paris Hilton!
Free Paris Hilton! than accept
another red balloon from them.

Steyr

WTF?

ch252

ooooooooook, I think you should ride off into the night on your uni-cycle screaming free Paris Hilton!


Really, what was the point in that?

I dunno, he's taking the p*ss of the GAAW protesters.

Go fetch yer LC English Poetry books.

My point: even the Poets don't think the GAAW make sense.

Second paragraph translation:
"If the GAAW Stalinists got their way, the only thing I could eat would be the cat, because everything else would be gone. You'll find me on a unicycle screaming to free paris hilton before I agree with that shower of commie loonies."

Or something.

I think.

Really? Am I the only one who remembers those poetry appreciation classes from school?

Nforce

Makes a lot more sense when your off your head on some Moroccan Skunkacidgrassshroom type trip...............


.........now, ......i'm off to watch The Wall followed by some 1970's Magic Roundabout re-runs;):pac:


PS. is ole Kevin Higgins any relation to MichaelD?

ronnie3585

Someone's been hitting the shrooms a bit to hard:pac:

Mr Benevolent

Someone's been hitting the shrooms a bit to hard

It'd be a better use of your time to hit poets instead

I never understand why they don't just say what they mean. Why coat sentences in manure? Worse then politicians.

punchdrunk

sorry but thats only pure bollocks so it is...

Well, I can't vouch for sense or taste, and poetry was one of the more annoying subjects in leaving cert, but if someone who's artsy enough to come up with that thinks the airshow is alright, then that has to be a good thing. One less loon waving a banner.

FiSe

Who's Paris Hilton