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Adult in the room
06:43
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She's just a kid
But such a wit
Tell truth to power
Hear the science
I should be at school
What of the pollies
Just a ring of fools
Tools, mules, stools
After Greta
Time to panic
Speak truth
Hope, in clouds
Kid's hour, empower
Their future, no longer cower
And what's the message?
Listen to evidence
Expertise, intelligence
Know truth, no anti-vax
no 5G conspiracy
But respect for wisdom
education, process
Reason, evidence
That's respectful
Conservative, preservative
Not adversative, self-servative
To save our culture
Civilisation, history.
Respect for past,
some sense of future
viewer not rumour
knower, sower
Not liar, denier
The alt?
The Capital-R Right
The radicals
Ignorants
Disrespect, foolishness
piteously, idiocy
ignorance, belligerence
That's why our Greta
a saviour
but one of many
Youth, knows truth
respects information,
association, imagination
civilisation, collaboration
A generation to save all
live all, what's left for recall
A future reduced
for tips traduced
their seniors seduced
their future sluiced
Please take it , Greta
our neo-cons have lied
our generations complied
Please take it , Greta
For that's what hope remains
And she said
I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. I want you to act.
I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.
The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say - we will never forgive you.
You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.
You must unite behind the science. You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option.
This ongoing irresponsible behaviour will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind
A failure beyond all imagination
Change is coming, whether you like it or not.
How dare you?
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Wisdom of Gramsci
03:50
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Gramsci said it
Everybody quotes it
We can only hope it's
a worthy path to take
Pessimist of intellect
Optimist of will
We wonder to assail it
Evince, convince, prevail it
Our kids show how it's done, true
Threats, future so clear to accrue
In streets, to claim their due
Justice clear, though luddites rue
False truths, serving cronies, too true,
Denials, violations, ballyhoo
Field of view, policy misconstrue
Overarch, overview
Deja vu
Pessimist of intellect
Optimist of will
For the swill, perhaps,
But final fill, distill
Truth for all
And all fulfill
The people's will
The kids hereafter
Thanks to Greta
All, thought and fret
A world to come?
Hope the quote to run
Satisfy will
Love will
Truth fulfill
Pessimist of intellect
Optimist of will
Pessimist of intellect
Optimist of will
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DiscoTex
07:34
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Hope%less
05:27
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What's needed for the future
Not the lies and misleadings
not the influence and peddlers
just the listeners and actors
Not the expectation we hold,
not a hope for truth and wellness
Once a claim and pride and purpose
Now just lost with toys and buyouts
Those pollies sought and soldouts
to the weakest, listen wanly
Claim to listen, act so strongly
Direction met, by masters set
Yet threat, forget the debt
No regret, no reset
Snapback, lost hope
Attack, crack, track
Whack, flak, yack
Frack ... oh love ... frack
"This is coal
don't be afraid, don't be scared"
He said
For once he spoke his truth
See it and despair
And we voted for this?
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Pergola
08:27
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Ah! PBO
06:28
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Ah! PBO
It's a duty coming weekly
Not a pleasure come to seekly
It's a measure done obliquely
Not bi-weekly, ever cheaply
Just a thing oft' done discretely
Save the household, if just briefly
Ideally done routinely
Neatly, sweetly, never feebly
Something crucial, indispensible
Comprehensible, commonsensical
Done ostensible, not quite extensible
Up down plentiful, not quite poetical
Forgetting untenable, if not uncollectible
Amenable, inflexible
A pleasure incomensurable,
Hardly sex but ecumenical
What is it?
Ah! PBO
Put Bins Out
Recommendable!
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The Pots Canberra, Australia
Bassist EP (Eric) is a long term electric and double bassist playing jazz and classical around Canberra. The Pots is his solo home studio project (in several very different styles). Beware: Political themes!
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