Genocide Poetry

Headline: "The word 'cowboy' is now equivalent to genocide."





I don't have decent words to reject the foolishness anymore; maybe none of us do. Harder words might follow, or harder acts. In general I prefer violence to discourtesy: one might have adequate reason to kill a man without wishing to insult him.

I guess they don't get that. It's a hard road they're mapping out for themselves.

7 comments:

james said...

"At the beginning their words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness."
"The wicked strut about on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men."

Unfortunately the word "wicked" seems to have lost some of its edge these days. Some folks think it something to boast of.

Grim said...

You should watch that movie I was just talking about.

douglas said...

"...one might have adequate reason to kill a man without wishing to insult him."

I just added that to my collection of quotes. Thanks, Grim.

raven said...

Thanks for this- I am anticipating listening to the Ian Tyson tribute- I had no idea of anything about him save a few 1960's folk songs- "Summer Wages" always spoke to me, having spent a lot of time in my late teens and 20's in various fishing ports and logging towns in the Pacific northwest. In a time when one would not be ashamed to say they were from Seattle.

Larry said...

What movie was that, Grim?

Grim said...

"Bad Times at the El Royale," Mr. Harman.

David Foster said...

Some more Ian Tyson: Claude Dallas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DqxWiX0fnE