Sunday, August 19, 2007

Guilty as charged

Culpability is enough and willing
for you
for me
but never for the potentate weeds
they divert to the block
your head
a head
any figure head.
Robespierres
for a new
generation

7 comments:

Orion said...

I thought Haikus were 5, 7, 5, aren't they?

Florizel Polixenes said...

I......uhhhhhhhh....changed it already. I was just fucking off and didnt change the title. They were crap anyway. I like this poem much better.

The Riverman said...

as do i. i get the gist of it, but would you mind giving a little more in depth explanation?

rm

Florizel Polixenes said...

This poem is written about the lack of accountability among the cheiftans of our society, and how they tend to hang the necklace of blame on figurheads. When i said "culpability is enough and willing for you...for me" I meant, as you probably know, that justice, or what passes for justice in this country, is served to the general populace on a daily basis and in the form of a 30 inch dildo. Whereas, a politician gets caugh lying, releasing the name of an undercover CIA agent to the press, and he/ she is pardoned or rarely ever gets caught in general. And "Potentate weeds" being potentate= someone who rules over a society, and weeds= something that kills other healthy, wanted plants and ends up devouring and overpowering the area they were introduced to, but that is pretty self explanatory. And the reference to "Robespierres." Well, that was a reference to Maximillian Robespierre of the Jacobins, the group who managed to sieze power during the French Revolution, who was a brutal, crazy, hipocritical fucker who sent thousands of innocent people to the Guillotine just because he needed the air of suspicion directed outward, away from him, while he was runnin sheeeit. And this was because, like most politicians, he was a crooked fucker who used the government for his personal use. Eventually the populace wised up and turned the guillotine on him.

The Riverman said...

come on man...give me a little credit...i know who Robespierre and the Jacobins were...ya bastard...:)

very nice, my friend. i have an even higher regard for this piece, given your extensive commentary. damn man...i've become so caught up in my self, i rarely, if ever, write anything like this with a social/political edge...gotta get back into that...i'll see if i can dredge up some oldies...

rm

Florizel Polixenes said...

Sorry dude, i was wondering. I kinda figured you knew. I mean, french revolution history is like some of the most compelling shit written, and you arent exactly what one would call uninformed.

The Riverman said...

thank you for your very nice, if slightly optimistic, compliment there.

and again, i didn't mean anything by it. i was just bein a smart ass.

sweet dreams all.

rm