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| A bench awaits Dookie |
Here on my bench beside the river coffee in hand. Just passed by a couple of guys sleeping in a doorway of Global Britain. I say sleeping, but one was choking his guts up. Having already done my good deed for the year I continued on, but stopped to feed a flock of pigeons. Which made me think. But not for long.
As I have just been informed on Facebook by a mate of mine, people are using the word "unprecedented" like never before. Yet just how unprecedented is ANYTHING? Reading a history book, the author observed...."Where there is money to be made, there are people who will wish to create privileged access to it" and also "Where there is money, there is power and hierarchy." I think this is why Brexit is being driven by many, they don't really give a s**t about just who is left behind, just so long as it isn't them.
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| Always money to be made |
Still, no one is forced to listen to such as them. Maybe we can't now enjoy freedom of movement ( although the money flows freely, even if not into the Exchequer ) yet while stuck here in one place we can choose our mentors and friends.
Poets for instance.........
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| Various poets - can you name them? |
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T S Eliot wrote:-
Anyway, I've just remembered a few words attributed to Richard II, the English king who put down the Peasants Revolt in the late 14th century.....
‘You wretches’, he said, ‘are detestable both on land and on sea. You seek equality with the lords, but you are unworthy to live. Give this message to your fellows: rustics you are, and rustics you will always be. You will remain in bondage, not as before, but incomparably harsher. For as long as we live we will strive to suppress you, and your misery will be an example to posterity.’
Well, you could not get away with such words these days...... THINK THEM, perhaps. (Richard II was once described as "too heavy in the arse, he only asks for drinking and eating, sleeping, dancing and leaping about.")
I'm not sure exactly what "leaping about" implies, but there are rumours that he batted for both sides, if not for one side only.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
I think in these "unprecedented" times that observation is apt; on a much wider scale. We all absorb yet most will simply regurgitate (as that poor sod in the doorway did), but we also have the potential to create and "make all things new", seeing with new eyes. There is nothing new under the sun except for our very own heart and eyes, each of us unique.
I think in these "unprecedented" times that observation is apt; on a much wider scale. We all absorb yet most will simply regurgitate (as that poor sod in the doorway did), but we also have the potential to create and "make all things new", seeing with new eyes. There is nothing new under the sun except for our very own heart and eyes, each of us unique.
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| Nothing new under the sun? |
Anyway, I've just remembered a few words attributed to Richard II, the English king who put down the Peasants Revolt in the late 14th century.....
‘You wretches’, he said, ‘are detestable both on land and on sea. You seek equality with the lords, but you are unworthy to live. Give this message to your fellows: rustics you are, and rustics you will always be. You will remain in bondage, not as before, but incomparably harsher. For as long as we live we will strive to suppress you, and your misery will be an example to posterity.’
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| King Richard II (large of arse) addresses the peasantry |
Well, you could not get away with such words these days...... THINK THEM, perhaps. (Richard II was once described as "too heavy in the arse, he only asks for drinking and eating, sleeping, dancing and leaping about.")
I'm not sure exactly what "leaping about" implies, but there are rumours that he batted for both sides, if not for one side only.
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| Richard II - all leaping done |
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