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1979
1979
Nineteen seventy nine…
talking taken epic art
take your foot from my collar,
your hands off my plough
Your armature of gladness
your courage
are you listening now?
So, I had looked for a reason
that was
more than a feeling
It was 1979, my face
learned to frown
that is something you must own
Characterisation attempts to relay
the essence of trial
the night time vigil
a bloodied cudgel
An essay of a borrowed spade
an ode, a captured smile,
a long conversation
with a phone dial’s emery
Like what happened with
Carmine Galante
when the pressure was off
all untouchables become
touchable and unholy
Khmer Rouge in the news
the fall of Phnom Penn
isolation tomorrow enshews
retreating to the Thai border
the Pol Pot regime is over
in Cambodia
Stagnant water smells
yet the bells tell
Gerontius is praying well
at the demise of the Diocese of Cariati
And if I were a happy year
to borrow moments then laugh it off
A year to remember well
on the back of a horse called Rubstic
a slogan horse called Troy
O joy if you were to meet me
on the other side of the pillow
Where the sun, orange like apricots
upon the tongue is holy bread
John Paul II off to Poland
Solidarity brings papal cheer
In the US of A – John Spenkelink no more
tied to his electric chair
USA, China – establish
full diplomatic relations
with the aid of the United Nations
China then invades Vietnam
needs no help at all
Jimmy Carter tries
to bring the hostages home
Dukes of Hazzard debut on CBS
the Happy Meal is born
In Wigan miners die
These were the days that widows still cried
your bees run out of hunny
your hot summer
Pink Floyd get it in the can
Phi’rr’ips! the compact disc peepul’
consign vinyl to ‘the Wall’
1979 – with the tape’s still running
politicians believing
you can still win with cunning
Ayatollah Khomeini back in Tehran
that’s in Iran
where he is creating a Council
of the Islamic Revolution
Somali voters approve
a liberal constitution
meanwhile back in London
IRA bombers kill Airet Neave
then later Louis Mountbatten
In the east or in the west
babies continue to be born
brother wants his little sister
Abba release chiquitita
its the International Year of the Child
Nickelodeon arrives
Josef Mengel becomes no more
while out swimming
the death-stroke
not such bad a way to go
for an angel of death
not gasping for breath
in a gas chamber
Montenegro has a shudder
earth shares the darkest of human secrets
that are not secret’s anymore
Heart of Darkness
Making Movies
on the red side of a bus
Josef Conrad’s novella
in the hands of Ford Copola
Apocalypse Now, in Me-k-ico
428 million gallons of crude oil
spill out in the sea
and snow falls in the Sahara
Greenland getting autonomy
from Denmark
not particularly
good news for me
the modern world keeps on turning
people’s passions
feelings burning
Klansmen shoot
to kill 5 marching workers
of the communist party
at a death to the clan rally
in Greensboro, Carolina
Gay marchers lead the way
in Washington, DC
‘Guardian Angels’ forming
crime fighters swarming
an army of unarmed vigilantes
in New York City
Across the universe
Pioneer on a probing mission
misses Saturn by 13, 000 miles
where no man has gone before
in the same year as the groovy
‘Startrek the Movie’
and still the pope has time to travel
to Mexico and New York Cities
a tornado hits in Wichita Falls
and 42 lie dead
This motion of change
not a year like any other
not one we can smother
charter, steal or barter
with another year of horror
from another pack of days
sealed, clean, unused
waiting for the dealer
to pick through the wager
1979, you leave me rasping
careless of any purpose
candid in my expectations
waiting like the frog, inept
who is alive in water boiling
with no concept of fear
or alarm or desire to escape
© edenbraytoday12.05.2021
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I'm a writer ... I write .. . I’m not sure why I ever stopped, was it 9/11? .. . edenbray is born ugly, wet and covered in blood, mucous and bodily functions ~ the effluence of my short life .. . I am a Writer and Artist since 1966 - I'm an avid Blogger ~ I write lots of poems, written essays, articles, reviews, opinion + comment .. . I have had many poems selected for Anthologies of verse and recently have published many of my poems in 24+ themed booklets ... please ask for details - join the shebang by leaving me a marker with a 'like' or a comment for my ego and encouragement and thanks for listening - I really value your interest ~ edenbray