The State Of The Union (2016)
This is not really what he'd planned;
Approaching 50 still wanting to be in a band.
Surely time to get lost in nostalgia?
Gingerly manage his hernias.
Back to the voluntary grind;
activities milling seeds scattered on his mind.
Shuffling in the decks of a croupier.
Nothing is random, he's pretty sure.
Punk intersections: collaborations or fights?
Social infections: shadows must live next to light.
Participate or resist?
Escape to the country and just exist? Oh! Bliss!
What will he miss in the new- bucolic morning?
The heartbeat of the nation's core;
built on a unity explored seems only in war.
Borderlines; not walls, they are ditches,
muddy and obdurate sutures.
Passion concentrated in sport.
Tribal knee factions on the button designed abort
paradigm shifts that would claim to treat
all of society like elites.
Bang went his dream for- retirement in France
Islanders chose the anti-ferry merry dance,
fuelled by Masons with sticks,
hoarding their money offshore-
the law- dismissed,
hedging their bets on remaining...ignorance.
©2016 John T. Windle/Vaudeville John
This is not really what he'd planned;
Approaching 50 still wanting to be in a band.
Surely time to get lost in nostalgia?
Gingerly manage his hernias.
Back to the voluntary grind;
activities milling seeds scattered on his mind.
Shuffling in the decks of a croupier.
Nothing is random, he's pretty sure.
Punk intersections: collaborations or fights?
Social infections: shadows must live next to light.
Participate or resist?
Escape to the country and just exist? Oh! Bliss!
What will he miss in the new- bucolic morning?
The heartbeat of the nation's core;
built on a unity explored seems only in war.
Borderlines; not walls, they are ditches,
muddy and obdurate sutures.
Passion concentrated in sport.
Tribal knee factions on the button designed abort
paradigm shifts that would claim to treat
all of society like elites.
Bang went his dream for- retirement in France
Islanders chose the anti-ferry merry dance,
fuelled by Masons with sticks,
hoarding their money offshore-
the law- dismissed,
hedging their bets on remaining...ignorance.
©2016 John T. Windle/Vaudeville John