{"id":2987,"date":"2016-07-19T00:51:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2016-07-19T01:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T01:21:58","slug":"galway-2020-plus-ultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/galway-2020-plus-ultra\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway 2020 Plus Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nGalway’s bid to win Capital of Culture is all twenty twenty
give the horse plenty.
\n~ Rita Ann Higgins<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Galway<\/a>
Galway Hooker sailing into Claddagh Bay seen from Renmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Galway won the City of Culture for 2020, but some bitter poets<\/a><\/strong> begrudge that achievement, faulting it for not sorting the cities problems as they see them to be. The city has problems, some Id agree with as problems, more not. The City of Culture never said they would solve those problems, its cultural, not political, but the hurler on the ditch still has to holler abuse, having little to offter as slutions bar abortion<\/a><\/strong> which is not an answer for austerity which is the issue and will be up to and beyond 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Angry words written as all is not well
\nThat water is wet the world they tell
\nThat grass is green and cant be eaten
\nAll know, but are warned again, argument self defeating.
\nTo spite what the trendys say and we would be told
\nThe verse is not the satire of the bards of old
\nAfter whom kings would have abdicated when about were written
\nThey spit out the flesh from the hand that they have bitten
\nRadical, in self praise, themselves they call,
\nWe who pay for it, dont agree at all<\/p>\n

From water meters to housing to hating Enda
\n– And none of us love him! – they have an agenda
\nWho wave banners and shout slogans at rallies
\nIf they got abortion tomorrow we’d lose them as allies
\nIn this long yet to run struggle of political torsion
\nAusterities the issue, the answers not abortion
\nWhere working class girls kill their unborn child
\nCapitalists profit – sure we will all go wild
\nWe will have a session, do drugs have the craic
\nAs the alcohol corporations laugh behind our back
\nWe protest against windmills, their profits begrudge
\nThat do good for the planet, as workers on trudge
\nOrganizing unions that the trendys wont join
\n“His issue is his, his issues not mine”
\nMore money for Luas drivers, the nurses the guards
\nDont forget to leave some for the sculptures and bards:
\nThe taxpayers look on in silent fury at this crying eye
\nWhere all strive to grab a slice of the pie<\/p>\n

Where is the strikes and call for better wages for the woman in supermacs?
\nOr the minimum wage cleaners who clean their shit in shopping centre jacks?
\nThey have if they are lucky got mortgages too to pay
\nOr else have given up ever having such a luxury one day
\nFor the bank tells them that more then three times a years wage they cannot borrow
\nBut tell the rich farmer come back he will be sorted tomorrow
\nThey have no answers for these people I want them to fight for
\nThey have no interest in the issues I want them to write for
\nSo I will write – I too am a writer – I write for these folk on my page
\nAs they tell us to “go out and get laid” – the opioid of the modern age
\nThey will get you abortion, so they will, so they will
\nIts only flesh, not human, though it you have to kill
\nIf Enda is clever, he will campaign for the referenda
\nRepeal the Eight, turn them on his side, suit his agenda
\nThere will still be people evicted for the boosted profits of the banks
\nDenis O’Brien will own the clinics, for our business will say thanks
\nAs they wonder how they are not elected in years when today they recall
\nForgetting half of the working class electorate are dead – they aborted them all
\nThose who protested at the instillation of O’Briens water meter
\nWill cut the ribbon on his clinics as if he was St. Peter<\/p>\n

The church against abortion will continue to bray
\nWill call novenas, for the unborn will pray
\nWho would look down of their mothers not being married
\nWhose parents would be happy if their daughter miscarried
\nThis mad attitude the worker does perplex:
\nThey are not pro life – they are just anti-sex
\nIf pregnancy by contraception or abortion cannot be prevented
\nWomen will be afraid to make love, hypocrites will sleep contented
\nThe worst reason for abortion, the most understandable of all
\nThat attitude must change, if we as pro life ourselves we call
\nWhether a woman has children by one man or three
\nWhy should it matter if she is loved by one like me?
\nThe girl who has none, or the girl who has just one
\nTo spite being sexually active prehaps often has gone
\nTo England, to Holland, and no-body knows
\nThis is Ireland – we keep secrets, as our tragedies shows.
\nThe men, the jack the lads, the shaggers, the geezers, the boys
\nWho boast about the women they had who used them like toys
\nThey all want the abortion, to end their responsibility
\nFor their excesses which they will never end for a girl like she
\nBut the populist poets who seek to sound subverse
\nSee not that, choosing to be blind, in their catch all verse
\nTheir solution is abortion if pregnant a girl is made
\nBy their first solution of do drugs, get drunk and get laid
\nNot even cuddled, the girl knows sex but no love, its how life is
\nDrinks to numb the pain, to toughen up, the happiness is his
\nHe brags about his fun, what she done or wouldn’t, blackens her name
\nSociety on her and her kind still puts the shame…
\nAs the clergy and the high polite still on her look down
\nHes a hero, she is told to be cold in sex, the catch cry of the clown
\nWho stands on the sideline, pointing out what is wrong
\nHas no answers to offer for the listening throng
\nFestivals and functions will come, will be planned, will happen and go
\nThat the world will turn beyond 2020 is all that we know
\nThe professional protesters like her can relax
\nReal Poets are still working to live, and will pay her wages with their tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galway’s bid to win Capital of Culture is all twenty twenty give the horse plenty. ~ Rita Ann Higgins Galway won the City of Culture for 2020, but some bitter poets begrudge that achievement, faulting it for not sorting the cities problems as they see them to be. 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