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2015, 6*, accountability, debate, echo, event, future, history, humanity, injustice, Paris, politicians, politics, rhetoric, Syria, terrorism, time, white elephants
there is always always a whole
history behind every event
never more so as we
step over rubble into the future
which we build now; and so much
of politics has become
so deft at skipping the history
to gainsay the outcome
that it has become flat
blunt and spade-like for holding, nothing
to account; history is human
hurt from any injustice and from any experience which persists despite
the rhetoric (oh, you weren’t
reaching for the shelves, were you!);
responding to Paris by
bombing Syria was on the table there-it-was
a rhetorical knee-jerk
blind to any history
hoping for crowd-approval
like the echoes of a playground brawl;
politics should be sharp and uncomfortable,
include all difference
include whatever white elephants are in the room;
spade (sic) politicians who
will not respond to the white elephant
who will not respond to the history
are left with only the puff of rhetoric
braying like farmyard animals, looking
ridiculous; air strikes in Syria are ridiculous
there were a number of terrorist attacks in Paris during January 2015; there was debate in the UK about launching an attack on Syria as a response; the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbin, was courting views on the response – I wrote a poem
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echo wormhole: Plumstead – Woolwich – Plumstead 220211
history wormhole: ‘God, who am I …?’
Paris wormhole: Le Pont Royal, 1909
politics wormhole: London refugee march – 120915
time wormhole: lack of center
mlewisredford 