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American Atlantis

by John G.Hall 

Posted: 17 September 2005
Word Count: 164
Summary: the rich always betray the poor
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American Atlantis

Plato saw forward,
wrote back words
of the Isle of Wars,

its jazz lighthouses shining
beneath the blacks & blues
of water blessed by mexico,

property is saved from human surplus values
by bulldogs with buckshot and shooting stars,
we are the drifting wood from their war chests
smelling of factory closures and charities soup
first world multiplied by natures twisting third,

tanks not boats uniforms not blankets
bullets for breakfast & lunch & supper,

the old Orleans moon sets on venice
it's jazzed beams splashing all earths
places of terror & tortures, swing out
the life boat, pass out the day's ration,

we are all in the same hope
lest you forget & rock us out
we are all overboard of love,

even now poets tie themselves
good and tight to the main sails
even now I can hear their sirens,
the Isle's of War calling sweetly
for new hurricanes of technology
to sweep the poor from the earth.


John G.Hall(C)2005






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Account Closed at 18:13 on 22 September 2005  Report this post
A great rap piece indeed! And very much of the moment. I think there are a couple of typos though - an "it's" for an "its" and "sales" for "sails" - or is it a pun?

LoL

A
xxx

John G.Hall at 12:22 on 23 September 2005  Report this post
Thanks Anne, it's is cool. Cheers. I was trying to hang a anti-disaster poem pun in there, but I'm finding that the idea is not working. I may go with the full on Sirens legend & change it to sail.

All the best.

JGH

blp at 17:30 on 23 September 2005  Report this post
Really good. I thought I wasn't going to like it because I didn't like the title - still don't - Atlantis being pomp, myth, new ageism etc., New Orleans being a sordid, toxic, water logged, rat ridden economic scandal - but the poem gets it right.


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