Erato says she loves a spot
of weaving texts back in her day
a text was a woven thing
words braided and interwoven
while not much into
writing manifestoes
she says she'll join in
so long as the manifesto
begins with poetry
think of those old men
Marx and Engels began
their prologue with
A spectre is haunting Europe–
the spectre of Communism
So how about
A spectre is haunting the world
the spectre of celebrity politics
Erato says
it doesn't scan very well
How about Valerie then
Life in this society being at
best, an utter bore
and no aspect of society being at
all relevant to women,
there remains to civic minded,
responsible, thrill seeking females
only to overthrow the government,
eliminate the money system,
institute complete automation and
destroy the male sex.
Erato says
much better though killing
has to go so let's try for
something more current
globalisation neoliberal rubbish
the new economic world order
is the last in the line
of coercive methods of control
patriarchal capitalism seeks to
control
the wild elements that have
resisted control
we need to develop a wild
politics
to resist control of these wild
elements
wild seeds wild land wild
farming
wild women wild reproduction
wild sexuality and wild markets
better says Erato
can you send it to the president-elect
so he knows nothing he has said
about globalisation is new
Over throw the only hope. Enlightenment will never strike these late capitalist ogres.
ReplyDeleteSeditious and wild poetry a must, men have failed . Thank you :) Susan.
Wild politics
ReplyDeletewild markets? aren't they too wild already?
ReplyDeleteThe wild markets are the ones that are not interfered with. Free Trade agreements are a major interference in people being able to buy things grown locally and not have governements sued by multinational companies. The last bit is and extract from the manifesto that prompted me to write my book Wild Politics.
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