It’s quite an amazing stretch of water running through the desert, heavily fortified, fishing and towns. Some look like they’re still being built others that they’ve been abandoned.
Feel The Shame America
Feel The Shame America
You’re still fighting the Civil War
Where the North is rich
And the South is poor.
Where the white thugs
Fly their Confederate flags
And lynched black men
Lie in body bags.
Armed militia prowl the street
Believe the earth is flat
Or you’ll feel their heat.
A mad concoction of
White supremacy
And the KKKs version
Of Christianity.
The madman tapped into that hate
Stirred it up with ‘Make America Great’.
Empowering the racist thugs
Offering walls
To uneducated mugs.
You let it happen –
You voted him in.
Sanctioning vile hatred
Is your greatest sin.
You toadied and
Kept quiet
As the fascism grew
When all the time
You really knew.
So where do we place the blame?
America, have you no shame?
Opher 9.1.2021
First he was the spoilt brat, then the property tycoon, then TV star and finally President.
He hasn’t changed. Always the spoilt brat with his tantrums. Always the racist misogynist. The fascist speculator. The narcissistic sociopath.
But you were taken in. You voted for him.
You excused his crass behaviour, his surliness and tantrums. You excused his cheating, his mafia connections, his tax evasion and criminal activity. You excused his rudeness and arrogance. You excused the way he empowered the hate-filled.
You condoned his behaviour.
He was straight-talking. He connected with the working man.
You sucked up to the fascist chief.
You let him take over the Republican Party and install his family and associates.
You condoned him insulting allies and sucking up to despots.
You condoned his nepotism, cronyism and bulling.
You let him have the country and stood by while he lied, spread conspiracy and divided the nation.
You backed him.
Feel the shame America. You installed a fascist. You condoned a fascist and you stood by a fascist.
Feel the shame.
Today’s Music To keep me SssSAAAaNnNnee in Isolation – Otis Redding – The Soul Album
Today’s Music to keep me SSssAaAaAaaNnNnnEE in Isolation – Edwin Starr – War
The Fog of Conspiracy
The Fog of Conspiracy
Rabid hordes of fascist muscle
Wave their flags and grip their clubs
Engaging in the racist hustle
In their camouflage scrubs.
The future of the country wanes
In reckless grinning idiocy
The sense of all logic
Consumed by a fog of conspiracy.
Opher – 9.1.2021
Fighting for freedom. No they are not. A bunch of racist thugs fighting for a fascist state, a racist state. They’re still fighting the Civil War. They want a white America ruling the world with black slaves fuelling the economy.
Their commander in chief pushes all the buttons, encouraging their madness, feeding lies and conspiracy while filling his bank account.
America is dissolving in a sea of madness.
What did Johnson say at the secret meeting with Sue Gray??
Crying for Ukraine Paperback – 6 May 2022 – Antiwar poems from Opher Goodwin
Crying for Ukraine Paperback – 6 May 2022
These are the poems I have been scribbling while the horrendous war in Ukraine has been unfurling on our screens – the madness of Putin, the horror of the destruction of cities, the terror of people, death, maiming, the feelings, emotions and stupidity of such unfathomable violence. These are my reactions.
The Suez Canal – local fishermen and massive ships.
As we slipped along the narrow canal with the desert on both sides I could not help wondering how big an operation it was keeping it open. The sand must blow in requiring constant dredging. It is such a narrow strip of water. The ships are massive.
In amongst these leviathans the tiny boats of the local fishermen put out their nets.
Heading down the Suez Canal – Photos
Boris Johnson’s Father dumps Brexit Britain and takes French Citizenship.
So much for Brexit being great. Rees-Mogg, Dyson and a thousand more all move their interests abroad. Johnson Snr turns his back on Britain and becomes French.
We’re all left here in the mess that Johnson Jnr is creating. Enormous costs of Brexit, the cost of sleaze and corruption with Covid and widescale profiteering as taxes rise, the cost of living goes through the roof, growth caves in, inflation storms and we pick up the bill for their greed and incompetence.
No wonder those that can are jumping ship. The Tories and Brexit are a disaster!