May 6, 2020

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Poetry: The Big Picture, C21

Poetry Letters & HumourMay 6, 2020

THE BIG PICTURE, C21 The last adults are ageing And leaving politics; The children of the boomers (Those legislating tricks!) Are ruling out the human, To accommodate their kicks. Old soldiers all are fading, Who knew when freedom called; The children of the boomers (Who’ve pouted, stamped and bawled) Know nothing but a play-school … Their liberated world! The out-flanked Church is grieving, Aghast at policies: The children of the boomers (Now toying with The Keys) Will blast the powers given them – Until they’re on their knees. Andrew Huntley

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May62020

LOCKDOWN CINEMA+TV: Staying in; staying sane

Music Cinema & BooksMay 6, 2020

by Symeon J. Thompson Once upon a time, going to the movies was a big deal. Magnificent pictures palaces, designed to emulate grand theatres were built, and people attended in all their finery – but with cheap seats and spaces for everyone. There were also travelling shows, rolling into town with the latest releases and a screen to watch them on. The movies were a communal event, a liturgy for the masses, with lessons of right and wrong, and vicarious sacrifices offered on the altar of the silver screen. Then came television. The communal experience still existed, but now it…

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May62020

Great, er, swan songs

Music Cinema & BooksMay 6, 2020

by David James In these dire and dark times, as we fearfully huddle in our houses as the Grim Reaper stalks the streets in the guise of covid19, one’s mind inevitably turns the subject of Death. It has been observed, by those in the know, that many classical composers have died in the past, and, as an absolute certainty, many will die in the future. So, to calm our nerves – all right, probably not for that reason – let us consider some of their last works. The best-known candidate for a composition that killed its maker is Mozart’s Requiem,…

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May62020

Locked down in Covi Town

Poetry Letters & HumourMay 6, 2020

by Patrick McStuttles Your Theobogan is in Iso. I feel fine but I came into contact with a bloke who came into contact with a bloke … you know the rest. My Boss, Chester “Chupps” Rafferty (he’s a Kiwi) in facemask gives me the bad news: “MacStuttles I don’t want to see you for sux months!” But heading home past the company BBQ area, I see Chupps, turning sausages, drinking and laughing with his staff. Face masks gone, party hats on. Struth! A conga line forms. The bloke who is supposedly crook is leading the charge. The quasi Covi carrier…

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