James Bredin Poems

Death itself is bad enough but the pain that goes with it, can be worse,
Therefore death-without-dignity can be a painful awful curse,
Of course you don’t know because it will never happen to you,
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We cannot decide when or where or how we would like to die,
Caught in the vice grip of politicians and no one knows why,
If Oregon and Washington have DWD, why can’t we?
Caught in our own historical stupid decisions for you and me.
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When the elite media moguls help their elite friends,
And announce in their pages about the latest trends,
And as an observer you can watch their buildings go up to the sky,
No binding referendums for you and you’re never told why.
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We have a large group of appointees with huge entitlements,
In a real Red Chamber in an Ottawa establishment,
Built-in Canadian aristocrats; as if we needed them
Can’t know or critize their entitlements so therefore can’t condemn.
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Stephen: here’s some good advice that you will probably disregard,
Because this is radical stuff you can use as your flash card,
That you may need before these ongoing scandals are finished,
Because I don’t think they can be written off or diminished.
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DRUG-ADDICT CLINIC ON YOUR STREET … July 11th,2013
By
James Bredin
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The Scarborough General Hospital saved my life at least three times,
The doctors, the nurses and the Ontario Health Care worked fine,
But then I saw pages and pages of reasons they wanted to change,
If it worked fine for me and did for years so why rearrange?
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Transparancy and accountability are really sparse,
Infact politicians tend to treat these issues as a farce,
And unless its mentioned in the papers, we will never know,
They’re busy at the moment, traveling and going to and fro.
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The media moguls seem to have accepted the notion that the drug addicts won,
And we the people are once again being pushed by their con,
The drug dealers are happy to sell their illegal drugs nearby
How did this catering to the underworld, come about and why?
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It’s not our appointed Senate that is at fault; it’s us,
We have allowed their delusions of grandeur without a fuss,
And less than half of us bother to vote in any election,
All these little details may indeed have a connection.
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