labi siffre - into the light

The prophet had foretold

2010-03-11T10:38:19+00:00

Endless night
From this moment on

But still the sun shone
So they wore blindfolds

To prove the prophet
Could not be wrong

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These rocks verify existence

2010-03-04T22:15:39+00:00

Existence says nothing
Layer on layer
With an absence of weight
And delicate traces of semen
Or is it paint?

Gazing at the sky
It’s missing; the moon is alone
In a void
That makes four; six
Counting the stones and semen
As collective individuals

Whatever they are
Things have to be done
For no reason but doing them
Makes reasons come

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To be omnipotent

2010-02-20T23:46:02+00:00

(able to do anything) and omniscient (knowing everything) and to create something that can do no other than you have designed it, in total, to do, is not “giving it” “free will”.

To be omnipotent and omniscient and to create something that can do no other than you have designed it, in total, to do, and then to blame it and punish it for so doing is entrapment.

An omnipotent, omniscient entity, albeit a human invention/concept, that exercises that process, is contemptible and absurd and, if it existed, would be responsible for all that followed from its act of creation.

The thought processes that invented such a concept were crude and uninformed as to the technical processes of the universe. We, possessing vastly more information regarding those processes, betray our humanity and descendants by continuing to promote as accurate those crude, uninformed thought processes.

Therein lies our responsibility.

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Stephen Fry talking truth & making sense for 19 minutes

2010-02-09T00:55:19+00:00

The Intelligence² Debate

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Funny how they take money

2010-02-07T19:05:12+00:00

From those
They’re supposed to be voting out
Of influence and into political extinction
While we
Give money to both and with outraged
Conviction demand respect;
No wonder they view us
With barely concealed contempt
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He thinks about death; a lot

2010-01-31T23:17:22+00:00

It’s natural
Happens to every one
It’s all around
Every day
But he’s not gloomy about it
He worries a bit that he won’t be able to function
When a certain person he loves dies
But he’d want him to just “get on with things”
So he probably will
Crying all the time for ever inside
And he worries about how the two he loves
Would be effected if he died first
So he tries to set things up
To make sure they’ll be ok
Yes he thinks about death a lot
Mostly in a practical way
Like remembering to put his wooly hat
On his bald head
Before going out
In snowfall
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Were it not for the fact that God lacks the ability to write unambiguous paragraphs

2010-01-28T14:26:06+00:00

Priests imams rabbis popes
Witch doctors pastors ministers
Archbishops
And their ilk, would rightly be
Recognized as faeces
Floating in the babies milk
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An American talking truth & making sense for 25 minutes

2010-01-24T20:17:17+00:00

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The languages of viruses

2010-01-24T14:02:51+00:00

Bees, ants, wolves, trees,
Fungi, flowers and whales work

Better in their societies than ours
Function in ours; and in the mirror

We fear and hesitate to face
It’s time humanity learned its place
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In that vacant room

2010-01-21T12:03:36+00:00

On that bed of thorn
Lies seed corn
Waiting for a child
Who will be praised
For wetting the bed
And up the stalks
Will build and climb
It won’t be me, too heavy
The sky; I can’t bear the weight
Though the older I get, the easier
I cry; packing less nitrogen
Still my tears may do
If the child can’t find
That vacant room
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So, “neither flag nor wind move

2010-01-19T12:08:34+00:00
It is the mind in motion”
But when the flag is totalitarian?
The wind a stinking fart?
What then of philosophy
Politics, poetry, art?
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In God’s name they kill

2010-01-18T23:41:53+00:00

And you say “It has nothing to do with religion”
Still we ask how far do you want us
To stuff our heads up our arses?
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In the minutes without rain

2010-01-10T16:31:59+00:00

On the planet Nirrin
It snows black snow
Corrosive gooey stuff
Rain or snow the Nirrin don’t kill each other
Some you lose some you win
Life is tough

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A splash of red

2010-01-10T00:22:36+00:00

On the front door

A sign they've killed the family there

Genocide takes time

Don't waste it

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Noticing his life so little

2010-01-05T09:03:22+00:00

His inevitable sickness and death
Will come as almost a complete surprise
In view of this he can’t make up his mind
Whether to pay more
Attention or less
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Ah, to hear that familiar phrase

2010-01-05T08:37:15+00:00

Could you make it “more universal”
This time to the artist Patrick Angus
In the TV movie “An Englishman
In New York” reminds me
 Of the black artists
Or their representatives
Who served me the same
When I offered them “Something
Inside So Strong”. Laugh?
As a matter of fact I did
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Of her life we know little

2009-12-30T23:18:02+00:00

Bread broken newly; made
Her begging words wasted
On jailers lunching with wine
Olives and risen loaves; while
Waiting for the torturers
To arrive

Did she beg to be freed from injustice?
To see her children?
To be forgiven

For the crimes she had not committed?
No, she begged the men to kill themselves
To make the world a better place

And when the farmer, tilling, found her corpse
She had no face

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The books are packed with empty pages

2009-12-29T10:36:29+00:00

No one comes here any more
No one’s been here since time
Itself forgot this place existed
In other places mayhap maybe but here
Empty pages would wither rather than speak
A language understandable
To us who mouth while others nod
We wisely don’t admit our mouths
Are moving without saying thoughts
There are none; nodders likewise
Nodding with no need of and indeed
In fear of understanding
Waste their concerns
Take precautions unnecessary
It will never, can never happen
She believes that’s called received wisdom
And wonders where she lost it
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A view less narrow

2009-12-28T15:35:59+00:00

Nearly 50 percent of children raped
Are raped within the family. Traditionally
We don’t mention that traditional family value
Source
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Hero

2009-12-27T12:47:08+00:00

In the waiting room many of us grew stress bored
Almost crazy with mundanity, with futility
But we held
On, controlled our feelings
I almost cracked; enough was enough
Was about to run amok; and then
An elderly woman in a flowered hat said

“It may turn out nice tomorrow . . . ”
We looked. At her. She'd saved the day.
She'd brought me back.

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Adult Content

2009-12-25T11:45:17+00:00

WHY MERRY IS CHRISTMAS GOD USE NOT YOUR HELD BRAIN RESPONSIBLE ANSWER FOR THE ITS QUESTION ACTIONS
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YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT

2009-12-24T18:16:39+00:00

You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade
[And people who love the same gender grade]
You've got to be carefully taught

You've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught

From the Musical "South Pacific"
Courageously written by Rodgers & Hammerstein in 1949
[Addition in brackets by me]

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The train from Oleander

2009-12-23T23:58:22+00:00

Was 3.27594 hours late; the platform
Empty, most people returned
To their homes
By car
By bus, by trudge through the snow
One sits on a stool at a bar
Sips iced spirit; the train
Waited six minutes
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To tire of life is tiring slow

2009-12-22T00:37:52+00:00

While time moves somewhen
We stand still
The sun knows nothing of the sweated day
No more they begged; encore they begged
What for they begged
To gore the weather with our blooded horns
They said
For that; that’s what we’re for
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The day began

2009-12-20T19:59:01+00:00

With snow and clergy lying
One on frozen, one on welcoming, eager
Ground; the second rabble rousing, wielding
God in hypocritical good news
And I thought of Jesus, who failed
To mention homosexuality; forgetting
Lies fill pews
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Uganda considering imprisonment & death penalty for homosexuality
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