


Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing
Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing
…These words from the boat ride in the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory haunted me as I witnessed the images emanating out of a
…the drowning of a civilisation…
…A modern day Atlantis…
Transformed I sat shocked wanting but not knowing how to cry at such a symbolic act.
The United States of America’s governance under the George W Bush Republican Administration’s refusal as so-called leader of the free world (and as an example to other fundamentalist terrorist organisations who seek to fulfill their own agenda’s regardless of it’s consequences ) to acknowledge and comply with multi-lateral environmental treaty’s , abandon those agreements which provide the opportunity and incentive to ignore calls and pleas by the international community to heed international law.
…GO FUCK YOURSELF…
And so what we see is a nature, THE nature that so many other states and territories around the world have to endure for the production of so many inefficient energy resource dependant polluting industries for the powering of a needlessly inefficient and excessively energy resources dependant, environmentally unfriendly global world economy.
The warning in that beautifully strange and unique exotic accent by the Mayor that all of New Orleans had to be abandoned was seemingly unbelievable, sounding for all the world like a ludicrously bad joke, seemingly ridiculous, an over the top exagerration of monumental proportions.
And so all those who could afford the access to fuel and a vehicle tried to get the hell out of the hurricane’s pathway as it came blowing and pelting in.
The first to go ironically were the oil rigs, and then with the misguided budgeting of Bush’s Republican Administration, which saw the reduction of revenue due to tax cuts for the fuckening wealthy rich and their security in defence spending for Iraq, the levee breaks, falling like a Led Zeppelin,as thousands of African Americans are herded into a sporting arena, recalling the feeding of persons from a certain religious group to the lions in Rome..and not to mention an era not so long ago of slavery and quarters for blacks only to be treated as though they were but second class animals.
But it wasn’t just the poor black folks left to die but all those considered economically unviable such as the elderly and disabled…
And what of the incarcerated and panic stricken wardens who abandoned their posts in terror and set the imprisoned free, loose upon an already vulnerable , traumatised and unsuspecting community in dire need of basic essentials in order to preserve life and conduct their own reign of terror…
Now this is capitalism at it’s economic rationalist best …as non-governmental organisations took up the slack and beared the burden left by a bottom line profit motive driven, emergency response, that has eroded govermental responsibility by privitisation and “market forces”, and thus struggled with the magnitude of the calamity, the destruction wrought and havoc wreaked and thus, the subsequent clean up of the mess which ensued….George W Bush was once again caught floundering in a slow response because he was on vacation, holidaying on his vast acres of ranch ala 4 years ago on one certain September 11th 2001 morn….like a modern day Nero, only this time Rome wasn’t burning but drowning and sinking….
…GO FUCK YOURSELF…
And what was his kind, compassionate words of support and wisdom as Commander-in-Chief but a call for “personal responsibility:”..effectively washing and wiping his and the Republican Administration’s hands of their own responsibility to those who he is suppose to represent as the elected government…and then he makes a call for people not to play the “blame game”…a game which he need only play by looking in the mirror…and as the race card was pulled out, the Administration sought the ace up their sleeve, a spade of affirmative action recipient and traitor, the President’s best friend Condi-aleeza Rice…
And all this while with all the the resources in Iraq, no-one was coming to save or protect these poor unfortunates, or restore order in a lawless now third world refugee state …and as the tourists dollars bought the rides out of there with their globalised money which talks, powering the economy with the (bull)shit and spin…their own citizens were left to remain and die in watery graves and a hell on earth, like the streets of Baghdad and Iraq…Even after the devastation of the Asian tsunami in 2004, such scenes of desperation for bare essentials and looting were not seen. Their descent into a capitalistic anarchaic materialism saw Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s famous quote on the looting of Iraq by United States soldiers as a case of “stuff happens” becomes a merciless shoot to kill policy on the American disadvantaged, yet equally opportunistic citizens…it would seem it’s different when it comes to American white goods as opposed to the cradle of civilisation and Iraq’s ancient Babylonian artefacts in their museums, what with the threat of those same very soldiers who having recently returned from Iraq, were apparently more than willing to “shoot to kill” their own citizens…
What progress !!? and what hope !!!??… brings the trickle down effect of capitalism, one which hides, then drowns to expose the working poor and the inequalities of a system which forgot any concept of social responsibility ..or humanity for that matter…
…GO FUCK YOURSELF…
…And so Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for the wrath of god in nature, for the death and destruction of some of the poorest in the world’s most powerful and wealthiest, richest country, and George W Bush declares another war …on nature …beginning with “Katrinastan”….and this time he’s not happy (but still goofy, clumsy)…and he means BUSINESS…
…The water becomes toxic due to the pollutants of big business industries and
…GO FUCK YOURSELF…
..As George W Bush’s fellow poor Americans are first left to die , the survivors are then transported from one superdome sporting arena to another in Texas as the sport of economics continues in a relentless and perverse Darwinian survival of the fittest which is considered an efficient (world’s best practice) evolutionary progress, whilst still declaring war on other’s in the name of abstract notions such as “god”…And all the authorities can do is suggest everyone prays …!!!!…WHO TO ???!!! for someone’s sakes ? …a fuckening miracle ?…to rewind time for a superman never to come ?…to a man with a white beard ?…for gay marriages ?…to stop the weather patterns of a mother’s nature ?…to a Jesus ?..or a Mohammed ?…
The state of terrorists, …planes crashing , falling down and out from the skies on top of us, …nature’s turning, churning and Willy Wonka’s been remade,… as celebrities pitch in with a desperation to serve a mutual, social obligation …and do their best with their leisure time… and for their parasitic ways…
…A chef , the one we call “Davin” declares triumphantly,…emphatically … “we are still in our infancy !…”….and to this proud declamation I retort equally with pride, a reply to the scientific, (f)artistic, dirty, stinking technologically obsessed hippy… “there is such a thing as infant mortality, …so what if we never get beyond this…our infancy ?…”…
..This is sick madness, insanity,…and somethings got to change …or give…to society… not capital economy…
..Finally the images of all the unsold newspapers and their headlines in their vending machines are frozen in time, the past now has all but just become wishful thinking…and all those abandoned cars are an eerie sign that hints and haunts the future..
…something bad is happening…
…Bring on 2012, I say,…
…bring it on…bring it on…
…as I sit disgusted in a state of nausea and watch my favourite perversion of motor sport ‘s Formula 1 racing, (look out for written pieces on website soon !) ss I watch the cars pointlessly go round and round to just simply follow each other …wasting time, money, limited, finite resources, burning up in their use of fossil fuels and polluting nations,…and starting wars,…and sucking up dollars like so much downforce…and I think to myself…not of Louis Armstring’s “What a Wonderful World”, but of how it all should be banned with cigarette smoking ,…and I get up, sickened…and go to bed to sleep… to dream…of something else’s place…
…GO FUCK YOURSELF…
a passer-by(e)…just passing…
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