The Blue Line Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen
The Blue Line
The Blue Line
What a week for the international press
Brexit and its endless drips of small minded politics
The French winning against Germany at last
A vindication of unsolved hatred
To top it up the murder of five police officers In Texas
No doubt there will be a liberal understanding
Black people have been killed by the police
So it is ok then.
Not so, there is no excuse for murder
There is nothing here to understand.
The cities of America are awash with arms
It is the citizens right to bear arms
They fear the government may turn against them
The eagle of war has come home
US troops have killed many civilians in Afghanistan
When people are disrespected
When people are seen as inferior,
The soul is poisoned
And uniformed men are killed in Texas
Is it poetic justice?
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4/19/2024 2:52:09 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Aloha Oskar... A seemingly fetching situation is it not? When one has skipped and fetched it for so long... one learns how to effect change at the point of a weapon... or so it seems... all the while suppositions and assumptions and asp wholes make the rules, support the rule makers, report the views, in microscopic sound bites and subject the ordinary citizen to fears... how weak is this species human? perhaps we should put a shout out for a pull the plug month and have that time to regain some calm within the greater world body of humans? what say you? and my thanks for giving a shout out to the reality of this messy business of tending the herd... All of the best from this life, to you, and all of your relations... Michaelw1two
thank you for this thoughtful comment