MARCH 2007

AIR SHOTS

Yes, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected

But Germany needed an Irishman.

Hitler had thousands of corner boys

And peasants too to hear him out – but

He taught them the violence of resentment

That prime advocate of obedience and wrath.

He conjured the violence of Slaves to Empire.

Whereas Charlie Haughey, Catholic pupil

Of DeValera said......... "Look to it, go easy lads ,

Make money, make money and trail in emulation

A galaxy of women, artists and other fools."

Haughey died, old, in his bed

Whereas Hitler saw shame

Hanging out the jaws of his Alsatians –

So he shot himself.

Jocelyn Braddell

THE HANDSTAND

www.thehandstand.org free on-line:

The computer and the mobile phone

Created by young men as tools

To work for the mind’s great fertile

Oppression………

But why do we overhear the latter

Repeatedly used as an adjunct

Of security only?

Glad we may be to see man or woman,

As if insane, talking, laughing,

Gesticulating as they walk or sit alone

There in the café. As for the computer

Will you all praise Micheal Downs

Who wants my domain name

To try and make a fortune from hundreds

And thousands of my readers?

Jocelyn Braddell Feb 2007

THE TONGUE

The tongue a curious limb

The scientist has so far neglected.

The tongue that measures out

The imprecations of an entire lifetime.

The tongue measures and permits

The jaws to consume

The breath to inflate the will

The eager digestion of the spit

That streaks the city walls along the pavement.

If the tongue is deprived of exercise too long

The other senses begin to tremble.

Thanks be to the ideas

Thanks be to reason

Thanks be to laughter in the mind

That keeps the tongue exercised. 

Jocelyn Braddell