Today a 62stone man died. He could not walk;
he could not stand. He ate himself to death.
We are entitled to ask...who gave him food?
Last week, three hundred rockets were fired
on Israel by Hamas, from the blockaded Gaza strip.

tectak
2014

Tec, I can't fully work out the we first half though I know we have started sending food over to Gaza. It's absurd to think of someone eating them self to death while everyone is starving and there is a war going on, but the absurdity isn't what bothers me, the world is ridiculous---It's the lack of clarity that's bothering me.

It will be interesting to see if they still get fed as much (Hamas that is) now that Egypt's stance has changed, not that i'm saying that they were the feeders, but that, that, is surely where the open throats to be fed were concentrated, and maybe those throats have been cut (metaphorically speaking). JG

p.s Iran probably grow good rockets on their farms.

I, personally, am a feeder. Of the children, I like to think, not some bloated Hamas rocket lobber.

(07-28-2014, 07:04 AM)trueenigma Wrote:  I, personally, am a feeder. Of the children, I like to think, not some bloated Hamas rocket lobber.

Who supplied the fat man's food?
Who supplied the Hamas weapons?

That's all.

Best,
tectak

The moral: the supplier is at least as guilty as the user.

Although it is more an aphorism than a poem.

(07-28-2014, 04:52 PM)Erthona Wrote:  The moral: the supplier is at least as guilty as the user.

Although it is more an aphorism than a poem.

Quite....and right.

The wife of the fat man continued to feed her enormous dependent in spite of knowing that she was killing him...yes, an aphorism.

best,
tectak

I understand what the poem is asking. What I don't know is who the "we" is in the first half. I suppose we is the speaker and the reader? But that is unclear. The speaker has a whistle in his pocket.

(07-28-2014, 08:16 PM)trueenigma Wrote:  I understand what the poem is asking. What I don't know is who the "we" is in the first half. I suppose we is the speaker and the reader? But that is unclear. The speaker has a whistle in his pocket.

No. He is just pleased to see you.
tectak

(07-29-2014, 12:19 AM)tectak Wrote:  

(07-28-2014, 08:16 PM)trueenigma Wrote:  I understand what the poem is asking. What I don't know is who the "we" is in the first half. I suppose we is the speaker and the reader? But that is unclear. The speaker has a whistle in his pocket.

No. He is just pleased to see you.
tectak

well, for once then, someone is.

Was it a big stiff hard whistle, or did he just capture the pressurized air and put it in his pocket...kind of a hard blow sort of thing. Even the Egyptians have turned against Hamas. I would hazard that is simply a case of blowing ones whistle to hard, i.e., a "blow hard".

Hamas is kind of like a 12 year old boy on the 4th of July, who has used all his fireworks and it isn't even dark yet.

dale the hardy laurel