THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes: 

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"

CALL IT WHAT IT IS: A RABBLE

"THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER!"

"Starve Government funds to the point of extinction"

Fulminating politicians/trade union bosses

have weaved their passionate appeals to willing ears

since the dawn of this nascent Republic.

We are familiar with lynch mobs and mob justice

With that institutionalized Ku Klux Klan bombings of homes

With leaders assassinated after smear campaigns

With mass murders and individual acts of extreme violence

With the packaging of such rituals as 'entertainment'

(like knitting at the guillotine or ringside with the wrestle4rs

like Roman Colosseums or public hangings

The public can easily be stirred to mob justice

Rabble-rousers stir up emotions to red heat

They then set a Reichstag on fire.History repeats

From individual /institutional acts of terror

(think Ruby Ridge/Waco/Colorado City

to those cycles of horror movies projected upon us

Our responses to September 11?/War,blood,toil,terror.

Starts with a match of burning words.Ends with a Holocaust.