songanddancegirl

ERASE

ERASE  ME?

abolish me

demolish me

liquidate me

Euphemisms for my nullification

eradication

burning at the stake

Publishing giant Harper Collins began 2015

with an apology   Last year they sold maps of the

Mid-East sans Israel  The company originally insisted

that: Erasing Israel was necessary  (sound familiar)

since displaying the reality of Israel’s existence would

be highly offensive to some of their customers  

A triumphant whitewashing of a hate crime?  Who gets

to decide what defines a hate crime?  The haters  or the

hated?       Discuss

It may surprise you to know that in modern day Hungary

the biggest challenge to the powers that be is the Jobbik

party  for whom anti-semetic + anti- Roma rhetoric abounds

Adolph would be proud

There is a movement afoot to bring back the prohibition

against marriage+sexual relations between Jews and non

Even walking with a kippa on is not too secure says David Wolfshein

a young Jewish activist in Budapest

All the more astonishing is the case of Bess Myerson (1924-2015)

the only Jewish Miss America   It was 1945   & the director of the pageant

thought her name wreaked of Jew    Go know she kept her name   Bess said:

Whatever was left of myself in this game, I had to keep. I knew I had to keep

my name.

On the tour there were:  NO JEWS  signs  in many cities (T.O: No Jews Dogs or

Negroes)  Bravely Bess spoke on the Anti-Defamation League circuit   Her speech

entitled: You Can’t Be Beautiful And Hate   It is also true that you cannot hate and

be beautiful     Think Adolph

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Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…

John Lennon    Imagine

Bess Myerson Jewish Miss America 1945

Winter  2015

COOLEST

COOLEST POEM

Walking along Queen St. today  minus30

10 steps and a mysterious cone of arctic-air

envelops me  I worry that my barehead will

implode  endangering all of the would-be

poems of 2015  As the light returns to Whoville

& the Grinch re-gifts stolen loot up+down the

streets   of the 2nd coolest neighbourhood in the

world   The more I hear this moniker  the less I

like its sound  Who wants to be the 2nd coolest?

Fer chrissakes  there is no 2nd coolest  there is only

the 1st

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Winter  2015

STONES

STONES  IN  HER  POCKET

Scott Carpenter was among the first astronauts

Virginia Woolf was among the brilliant suicides

The look on their faces is not all that different:

inscrutable smiles  expectant eyes  mischief about 

the lips   One explored the heavens +seas   the other

words +rivers   Scott died at 88   Virginia at 59

When Scott arrived in heaven he lifted Virginia from

the Ouse  Why he had endured forces 16x that of gravity

& he knew a thing or 2  about freedom   Scott did not believe

it was just another word    Virginia wrote 9,626 words  & knew

nothing about freedom   Scott married 4x  & had 8 kids   Virginia

once  & had none

The stones weighed heavy in her pocket on the day she had nothing

left to lose    Now a lightness came over her    Scott would teach her

how to fly

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Virginia referred to her husband Leonard Woolf as  “my Jew”  & in her

final note before walking into the River Ouse she wrote: Dearest I feel

certain that I am going mad.

May 2014

HOBO

HOMEWARD BOUND  IN   LAVENDER LIGHT

Her name is Sailor  Her sister was Piper    Sierra

her cousin  a dark crumble under the shade of pines

Sailor walked out of the woods   Sub-zero  one sock

Broken wrist   blood-smeared chin    Father was 48

Mother 46   watching her from River Styx    Kindly man

in woodland house said: I brought her in and washed her face

Courtney Love whose scalpel-face is unrecognizable tells us:

Forget persona  Your mojo is your mojo     Sailor Gutzler

knows a thing or 2 about mojo   Born with a huge dose  propelled

tiny body from upside-down plane into snow covered forest

The newest Boko Haram-boys will need some of her true grit

40 kidnapped on the day the Gutzler plane fell out of a lavender

sky   Why would they covet boys?  With 219 girls still missing  the

question begs an answer    The answer questions our collective grip

on what remains of humanity’s sanity

tiny suicide bombers?

young sex slaves+soldiers?

spectral heroes guiding children out of crashed planes?

Sailor Gutzler was taken by ambulance to Holy Sister’s   They set her wrist

& a family member collected her  as the world woke up to a nascent year on

January 5, 2015

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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