PRINCE
“I WAS RAISED TO BE CHARMING NOT SINCERE”
(Prince Charming)
In December 1647 Puritans put an end to: drunk excess
papist superstitions +carnal delights They banned Xmas
Riots broke out in Canterbury This year at Christ-tide on the
outskirts of Tijuana young girls sought sanctuary At least
20,000 people are trafficked through Mexico yearly The vast
majority women+girls
Hilda was 9 when she arrived at The Garden House for victims
of child sex trafficking Sold by her family she is now 18 & has
not spoken a single word since arriving On the night before Xmas
she emerged from a cocoon of silence: I’m happy +kind of sad but
it’s okay now she said
Mary Ellen Bartleby California District Attorney noted:
With a pound of cocaine, if you sell it, the cupboard is bare.
But with a woman, you can sell her several times a night;
seven days a week.
If the cave painters were to scratch a portrait of Xmas 2014 onto
the rockface it would look like: a genetic mutation of innocence
a microbial form of hatred seeping into human DNA for millennnia
And we call them primitive
Might it not be time to Rise Up in some small way against the hypocrisies
of everyday? You know like: peace goodwill +progress the ships that
sailed without us This year China banned Xmas calling it: Ancient Kitsch
which really is a much more apt description of China
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Pope Francis in his first mass of 2015 said that everyone has a God-given
right to be free This at a time when 36,000,000 people live as slaves, are
trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, or are born into bondage.
(Walk Free Foundation Australia Global Slavery Index)
Winter 2015
