may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Sunday, September 12, 2010

"refudiate"

i want my language back!
Malapropisms and neologisms via baby bush
date back to war cliches-
"plausible deniability""collateral damage"
"we have to burn the village to save the village"
Extend this to CIA"enhanced interrogation"(TRANSLATION=Torture)
soon our very speech becomes political cliches
Before you blame Sarah Palinisms for this mediated illiteracy
consider how long erors,distortions and gross exaggerations
have governed our public discourse
It matters when civilians get bombed
It matters when women and children get targeted
It matters when rationalization of casualties compounds damage
When police in New Orleans during Katrina shot innocents
and where themselves looting and marauding and predating
we need to clean our language "to serve and to protect"
When Presidents parse grammar as defense from sexual harassment
we need more than deconstruction of sin tax
When paedophile priests and Fundamentalist sinners
claim the Devil as defense(and yet accuse others of offense)
follow the money trail.Education has become incarceration
Food junk as bonds.Meaning as empty as Lady Ga-Ga.
Dare we stop being distracted by entertainment
long enough to fortify our esperanto vocabularies
so that we are all on the same KINDLE?
"Why can't we all just get along?"
"Don't tazer me,bro!"
"I did not have sex with that lady"
REFUDIATE that!

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