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Since I’m a bit of a Poetaster, and from the frozen north, I thought folks might appreciate a recent piece I did talking about a few of my opinions with regards to Canada/US relations...
Here goes:
The City on the Hill - (c) 2012 by Trevor Patrick
To slog through the forests of pointing fingers,
And the endless snipes and blame,
Where the extended helping hand gets bitten back every time,
And instead of gratitude, the return is ridicule and hate.
For you’ve found out the hard way,
More than any other nation,
That success brings open enemies and false friends,
Your virtues diminished and scorned,
Your faults exaggerated and magnified,
And you’re suddenly on constant defense.
It’s easy to criticise the things America does wrong,
And to forget all the things it does right,
We’ll say that they’re brash, and arrogant and stupid,
And begrudge them their patriotism and pride.
We’ll call them a big, bloated war machine,
Yet forget all the times they’ve brought peace,
And we’ll talk about jingoism, and editorial slant in the media,
Yet forget that before America, there was little free speech.
And the conviction that everyone should have a voice,
Even if it’s a voice with which you’ll never agree,
Leads to a more vibrant society than when there’s only one “proper” viewpoint,
Because the leaders will mercilessly crush all heresy.
And if there’s one thing that America’s taught the world,
It’s what big dreams and hard work can really achieve-
That what social class you’re from is not as important as what you can do,
And few care what church you attend, or which philosophy you believe.
And we talk about rural poverty and decaying cities,
But forget that America went to the moon,
We’ll talk about the infiltration of the American Culture,
That we so freely choose to consume.
We moan that we’re treated like the laughable baby brother,
And don’t receive our due respect or rewards,
But too easily we forget, when the younger brother gets to stay home,
It’s because the older brother’s gone off to war.
And we insist on comparing ourselves to America,
Instead of concentrating on our own points of pride,
Because Canada works best when we work on improving ourselves,
Rather than trying to live a lie.
We’ll go to Buffalo to shop, and get cheaper goods,
And to the warmth of Florida in February and March,
To Vegas for some gambling, and New York for some culture,
And go to San Francisco on a lark.
And this sharing goes both ways,
As 80% of our exports,
Go to the United States,
And it’s no lie to say, that we ride on American prosperity,
And we’d be lost without this trade.
So why should we be shocked,
When Americans view our criticism,
As biting the hand that feeds?
Especially when we’re supposed to be friends and allies,
And America already has far more enemies than She needs.
And though some won’t admit it,
They know nonetheless,
That our ties shall never be severed,
For if the day should come,
Where America falls,
We’ll both go down together.
It would be far worse still, than the fall of Rome,
Should that shining city sink in the sands of time,
Because the new world powers, who are waiting in the wings,
Have long-term goals, which are far less benign.
Freedoms we cherish would disappear overnight,
And dark ages would surely descend.
And none could predict the ultimate fate of the world,
Or what evil such times could portend.
And those of us, who are truthful to ourselves,
Know that one thing has never changed.
Canada continues to be the True North Strong and Free,
Because of the Home of the Brave.
Thank you Meg for your posts and beautiful graphics!
I appreciate your kind comments, Rus..My pleasure.
Check out the poem in 410
The City on the Hill - (c) 2012 by Trevor Patrick
I’m glad you liked it, and I thank you for the compliments. Some of my pieces are much, much darker than this one, such as another I recently finished, which addresses the rising tide of trendy Anti-Semitism. I’d like to share that one as well, but I’m not sure if this is the appropriate forum for harsher/angrier works.
If it doesn’t contain profanity..it would be welcome.
;o)
Anti-Semitism isn’t trendy here!
It contains about three cuss-words that I used to get a particular point across, but I can easily censor those. Folks will still get the same idea.
Here it goes (and the cuss-words have been censored out). This piece is my direct response to Israeli Apartheid Week, which has done more than every hate group over the past sixty years PUT TOGETHER, to make Anti-Semitism once again trendy and chic.
Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht - (c)2012 by Trevor Patrick
Welcome to University, it’s the time of your life,
When you spread your adult wings.
Come for the learning, come for the networking,
And nights out with plenty of drinks.
And maybe you’ll hear an interesting lecture or two,
If you’re not too busy sleeping in the back,
And the frantic all-night cramming,
As midterms draw near,
Reports and textbooks piled in stacks.
But the best part by far, of your University days,
Is becoming an activist for trendy, progressive issues.
You’ll learn righteous anger, and courtroom tears,
So never forget to carry a pack of tissues.
While certain causes come and many more will go,
And over time, most will lose their guile,
There are always a few that will remain a given,
And never go out of style:
Like every hipster in University wants to be a trendy, good Marxist,
‘Cause Communism’s always the right way.
And every time it’s failed, it’s because it wasn’t properly understood,
D*** it, we’ll get it right some day!
And what’s even funnier, is young folks’ understanding of Socialism,
Is nothing more than: ‘rich people have a lot of nice stuff I want!’
They’re far less interested in the struggle of the proletariat,
Nor do they admit the bourgeois attitudes they flaunt.
And always we heard of the special evils,
Of Anti-Semitism and plain old racial hate,
But those old stalwarts are behind the times,
And the brand new notions of late.
Indeed, by far the most interesting, are the momentary trends,
That swing ‘round like a weathervane.
Today the winds will blow left, but tomorrow they might blow right,
With cognitive dissonance that would drive anyone insane.
In 1999 it was: ‘Gotta stop Milosevic’,
And less than a year later, that went out the door.
In early 2000, it was: ‘Down with Uncle Sam!’
And his unjust, Imperialist war!
Then in 2001 when the towers came down,
It was: ‘Save the world from the Taliban!’
‘Those poor, Afghani women under their burqa tents,
And the destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan!’
But when the troops moved in and the daisy cutters fell,
It was: ‘Islamophobia strikes again!’
‘Cause after all, our Loose Change said 9-11 was an inside job,
And a dastardly Jewish, Zionist plan!
And besides, we’re told, there were no Jews in Palestine,
Until the Imperialist powers inserted them in 1948,
‘Cause in the 7th Century, every last one of them accepted Islam,
Before the sword could seal their fate.
So it probably won’t surprise you to hear that my own true learning,
Was that politics really is a hamster wheel.
Run and turn it to the left far enough that it becomes totalitarian,
And plain-old fascism is suddenly revealed.
For all the talk of love and peace, I think it’s really funny,
How quickly it spins around to talk of hate and war.
Because really, in the end, it’s the same d****d thing,
And their own message that they freely ignore.
So with that all in mind, let’s discuss the newest development,
In that ever-evolving farce of trendy causes,
The time of year has come again for Israeli Apartheid Week,
Where both sanity and civil discourse pauses.
It’s once again time to protest things you don’t really comprehend,
Your imperfect understanding based on clumsy and casual half-truths,
And the dismissive and wilful ignorance of historical fact,
Is not as important as the trendiness of the cause you choose.
And another part of maturing is that you finally figure out,
That uncomfortable truths hide in every lie.
Like Voltaire said: ‘to find out who truly rules over you,
‘just find out who you’re not permitted to criticise.’
So why don’t you admit what you really want-Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht?
Start ordering your Zyklon-B for Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Palestinian Prussian Blue for Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Enjoy the Western World’s favourite disease in Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht!
If Political Correctness has achieved nothing else,
It’s made being perpetually-offended lucrative and rewarding,
And normal interactions of healthy human society,
Are suddenly a statistical minority.
And gradually it seems, we’ve lost our moral compass,
And can no longer understand that freedom is not free,
And that in the part of the world that we now choose to idealise,
‘Freedom’ as we understand it, is a laughable anomaly.
Those freely slagging Israel all fail to realise,
That they’re attacking the Middle East’s one, true democracy,
And that the Jew-free Palestine that Hamas dreams of ruling,
Will be an iron-fisted religious theocracy.
And where is ‘moderate Islam’ these days?
They’re awful quiet of late.
Of course, it doesn’t pay to open your mouth,
When you’re unarmed, and living in a Taliban-ruled state.
The protest organisers say: ‘we’re not really anti-semitic,
‘we’re just against the Apartheid walls’,
But they act as if they’ve made an original discovery,
That the Jews are always a handy scapegoat for all.
And the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,
Is once again required textbook reading.
Just like the poor little Christian and Muslim angels,
On whose blood the rabbis are secretly feeding.
Indeed, you should admit what you really want-Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Start ordering your Zyklon-B for Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Palestinian Prussian Blue for Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Enjoy the Western World’s favourite disease in Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht!
“Useful Idiots” is actually a whole lot more,
Than an abstract figure of speech.
Because Lenin understood when he uttered those words,
That the fifth column spreads to places where armies can never reach.
Having an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out,
Will always save your from embarrassments and disasters.
And the genuine prudence to know your point is less valid the louder you shout.
Is a valuable lesson that most folks never master.
And people hide their hate in the dark, for they’re afraid the day might come,
When it’s exposed for all the world to see under logic’s remorseless sun.
We never, ever trust the other tribes.
Unless they’re fully conquered as rightful spoils of war,
And their women then become our forcible brides and chattel property,
Or at worst, they’re used up as comfort wh***s.
And Islamic “terrorism” is just belated payback for the Crusades,
And the wholesale “theft” of Palestine.
And the Holocaust-oops! That actually never happened!
That’s just more dirty Kike fraud and lies!
Convert, or we’ll kill you in the name of our god,
For your deity’s actually the Devil!
Whether it be the Flying Spaghetti Monster,
Or Russell’s orbiting teakettle.
And the absurdity escapes the students holding up those signs,
That once the Jews are gone, their turn will come awful fast,
And they can kiss goodbye to their precious freedoms of thought, expression and speech,
Or anything but seventy-two virgins and a suicide bomber’s blast.
So why don’t they admit what they really want-Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht?
Start ordering their Zyklon-B for Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Palestinian Prussian Blue for Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Enjoy the Western World’s favourite disease in Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht!
Whoever screams ‘oppression’ the loudest, is the one who wins this game,
And you must tear down the oppressors,
Rather than lift up the oppressed,
Yet wonder why nothing will ever change.
Because it bears repeating, I’ll say it once again:
Humans never really want equality, they only want revenge.
And it’s easy enough to understand-in fact, you should too,
That there’s no real difference between the old boss and the new.
In fact, if you study history meticulously, you’ll find out our greatest curse,
Is that almost without fail, we learn the hard way,
That the new boss is actually worse.
And time after time instead of striving for tomorrow,
We’d rather wallow in the blood and dirt.
They’ve chosen to fight for the kind of people,
Who strap bombs to their daughters and sons,
And who will never be satisfied until they annihilate the Jews,
Down to the very last one.
And these useful idiots will say such insane things as: ‘Hamas needs a nuclear bomb!
‘Because then Israel would be forced to treat them as equals,
‘And soon all the walls would be gone!’
But if such a true horror were to ever occur,
They’d find out the actual news,
That it isn’t the walls that Hamas wants gone, it’s every single Jew.
And they’d like you to think that they’re a peaceful volunteer movement,
Even if they’re more than a little shrill,
But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out,
That Hamas and Hezbollah are paying the bills.
So what is it that their paymasters want?
It’s Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
To punish everyone who won’t accept their vision of Allah,
After Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
The entire world standing in radical Islam,
After Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
For they know humanity’s roughly as fickle as a flock of bleating sheep,
A charismatic bellwether is all they ever need.
Kristofferson was so very right when he said the words in song,
That ‘everybody’s gotta have somebody to look down on’.
From the Roman Occupation through the Inquisition too,
It’s always been such trendy fun to hate upon the Jews!
But then Oncle Adolf came along, and people followed him like a bunch of dopes,
And he spoiled that happening party, making Anti-Semitism hopelessly gauche.
But it’s only taken sixty years, and in the Muslim world even less,
To make it wonderful, splendid fun to reveal the secrets we’ve never left.
The lip-service we pay to ‘tolerance’ is nothing but a clumsy lie,
And so-called ‘equality’ is nothing but revenge, for our enemies must die.
And while we’re being truthful, let’s try this one on for size,
‘Unlearning’ is just another form of brainwashing, but under a prettier disguise,
And ‘anti-racism’ is simply ‘racism’, just flipped to the other side,
And once again ‘equality’ is simply revenge that’s clothed in lies.
Universities encourage open thought? Yeah, what a f***ing laugh!
Only if your ‘open thought’ is ‘correct’ and trendy, natch.
It’s as creative as a monkey flinging its s***, and as puerile as lighting a f***,
And just about as credible as calling this poem a piece of fine art.
These people wouldn’t know Godwin’s Law if it slapped them across the face,
They’re oh, so tolerant and oh, so inclusive, yet they judge by religion and race.
We sincerely want to right the wrongs,
And we’re oh-so-progressive, we boast,
But in the end nearly everyone,
Becomes the thing they hate the most.
Why don’t we just finally deal with the fact,
That we’re tribalist through and through,
And the Global Village is just a made-up dream,
And as truly natural as a zoo.
But the protesters may eventually see poetic justice,
When they have their first real job interview,
And they walk in the office, the person sitting across the desk,
Just happens to be a Jew.
It’ll be amazing how quickly they’ll all forget,
Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht,
So sorry, so sorry, I bitterly regret,
Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht.
Please oh please, I need a job!
I know nothing about Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht,
I swear I was never part of the mobs,
Pushing Israeli Apartheid Kristallnacht!
Thank you to Everyone for the Beautiful Sunday Posts.
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