GLORYVILLE
FADED GLORYVILLE & GILDED SUTURES
What’s holding you together these days?
All my friends are dead said Pete Townsend +that was
30 yrs ago before Lou Bowie +Leonard Mose Allison too
Died yesterday at 89 It’s been a precarious year for music men
members of minorities +citizens of war torn countries
It is the year of the working class white man Populism
nationalism racism creeping along ruptures in the
culture Up through tectonic plates making a bee line for
Pennsylvania Avenue Somehow the ground shifted as we
debated ad nauseam whether the internet shredded human
love The glue holding our tribe together by a thread
We mourned too the death of hope in trenches filled with
vermin +Germans +mustard gas about a hundred years ago
Around the time that Freud belaboured the point that: Sometimes
a cigar is just a cigar And sometimes it is a racist billionaire
hiding in plain sight
These people are NOT your friends working-class white man No
matter how many lumpen carrots they dangle And in the waning
days of the free world populist exit strategies abound For those of us
approaching the final third of boomer un-glory we recall slogans like:
Never Again! We who clung to them so fervently
So that when they hand me the yellow star of David I will count on my
neighbours to don one too And in this sea of yellow stars they will never
find the real Jews Yesterday the Donald was made an honorary Cossack
by Putin this the outfit who pillaged with impunity Razing the Russian shtetls
My high cheekbones attest to the Cossack kiss administered to a long dead
ancestress who struggled in a ditch near Vitebsk
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The alt-right: a group of mostly young white men who believe in white
supremacy; oppose immigration, feminism, and multiculturalism; delight
in harassing Jews, Muslims, and other vulnerable groups. There is every
reason to be concerned that someone who willingly trades in hatred will be
a key part of the next administration. (Mr. Bannon/Breitbart)
The next President will be an unprincipled bully. It is doubtful Mr. Bannon or
anyone else can control Donald Trump. And that’s what America and the world
should truly be worried about.
(Globe & Mail editorial Novemeber 17, 2016)
Late Fall 2016
songanddancegirl 