Lassie
She vanished from the set
never to be seen again
fame and fortune meant little
compared to the delicacies of Beverly Hill’s
garbage cans
Robert K. Stephen
Lassie
She vanished from the set
never to be seen again
fame and fortune meant little
compared to the delicacies of Beverly Hill’s
garbage cans
Robert K. Stephen
Paganistic Birthday Party
Assembled about the synthetic evergreen altar
are the little dazed children
stunned as if pondering the words of the three wise men
they murmur their pagan chants
materialistic hymns of candy, games and toys
greedy gleaming eyes of the little fry thought to be cute
wish they could have more than they see
the evening fest
a ritualistic ceremony of orgiastic delight
bloated bellies and upset stomachs
oh Christ
they’ve forgotten you and it is not funny
seems like you’re being used for the money
Hedonistic decay
displayed in such a degenerate way
a satanistic surrealistic day
of electric shavers and racing car sets
chocolate mangers, plastic Christs and neon bulbs
bright colours
euphoristic delight
Santa Claus, the false pretender Satan
laughs quietly
his work well done
Robert K. Stephen
A winter statistic
Tangled in the jagged steel
it lies on the highway
and the cold air wafts the steamy mess
further on down the road
where a crowd stands gawking
pondering how the exaggerate the bloody mess before them so as to create
interesting dinner conversation
Robert K. Stephen
The fight
It’s called survival
apologize
feigned humility
prostitute mind and body for THEM
you just might make the suburbs and second car
I hope you like kissing asses
and if you don’t
kick em in
and rot
with the rats
Robert K. Stephen
What you have to look forward to or you’d best pawn that gold watch your employer gave you
You slave for the dignity the weekly pay affords
Yes sir!
No sir!
and if you are lucky a pittance of a pension comes your way
retire and read the paper all day
and learn how to stretch that cat food all the way
Robert K. Stephen
To a vegetarian
do you not hear
the screams
at
harvest time?
Robert K. Stephen
The lottery
Grandiose plans
clinched if only the lottery were won
computerized swindle
dashes hopes on the rocks
the struggle momentarily forgotten
frustration rockets
hopes dwindle
only to be rekindled before the next BIG draw
Robert K. Stephen
The Prison Sentence
It’s been over a year
cowering by many in COVID fear
Let me outta here
but oh no leave the house and B117 will cause my lungs to sear
Realistically with vaccine delays abounding
why Pfizer chooses now to retool in Belgium is astounding
just we when all hoped from stress we’d be rebounding
politico-medico directives are never ending
with millions of minds bending
At least in prison you have a chance at parole
if you are skilled at a parole board cajole
but with this COVID we are very far down the rabbit hole
Civil disobedience is beginning to mount
yet the political-medico elite seems only concerned with the count
Cancer surgery and other life saving procedures are getting delayed
is all this rigmarole getting you a bit frayed?
Robert K. Stephen
I was aware that Africa does not take to gay men in a permissive sense. The Kenyan penal code has been interpreted by the Kenyan judiciary to constitute a serious crime including imprisonment for up to 14 years. Angry mobs can descend upon a gay man and beat him to death. Being a lawyer, the Kenyan penal code provision could possibly be interpreted in a different fashion but the prevailing hatred of gay men makes any liberal interpretation unlikely.
In this documentary we follow the life of Samuel and his partner Alex two people who are obviously in love but walk a tightrope where a plummet is entirely possible. With their pals they are happy, good natured and full of humour. Without this support network life can be dangerous if discovered and permitting this film to be made Samuel, Alex and their pals who have not had their faces blurred out have taken a great risk in letting themselves be identified.
Samuel is from the Kenyan countryside with his parents being poor farmers with conservative and Christian values. It takes great fortitude to admit to his father he is gay but he does so and his father disowns him while his mother is more accepting. Will his father relent?
This is at times a frightening story of a gay man in Kenya balancing his ease at being gay with the dis ease of that by the society he lives in.
Many of the gays in Canada and the United States ae too young to remember Toronto’s 1981 gay bathhouse raids and the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York against anti-gay police brutality but people were not as accepting just as in our North American past. Kenya, if it is willing to overcome its hatred, may have another 50 years to go before gay men can no longer live in fear.
I would have appreciated some explanation in the film of just why is Kenya so virulently homophobic.
Some beautiful footage of the Western Kenyan countryside may help alleviate your discomfort in watching this documentary.
The festival runs virtually February 18-22 and its films are available to Canadians at no charge but you will have to reserve tickets through Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema website.
You can see a clip and short interview here herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNbSgKqhRAk&feature=emb_logo
Chapter 38 “Tehran and Ankara pay the price”
As you can imagine with dirty nuclear bombs being used by Turkey to destroy two American aircraft carriers in Cyprus during the American 2028 liberation of Cyprus with the loss of thousands of American lives the American mood was revenge. The botched Turkish invasion of the Greek Islands of Samos and Lesbos in the Eastern Aegean as part of the Turkish New Crusades programme also had Germany in a tizzy as all six of its coast guard ships stationed on the two Greek islands were sunk and the survivors in their lifeboats were machine gunned by the Turks in a mini massacre fashion.
Another interesting fact emerged from the botched invasion. For years the Greek far right had been warning various Greek governments that the thousands of refugees streaming into Greece were part of a Turkish plot to help take control of the islands. Many weren’t refugees at all but members of the Turkish Free Army the fanatical faction of the Turkish New Crusades movement. The weaponization of immigration.
You may recall it was a combined Israeli and Greek force that repelled the Turkish invasion of the two Greek islands. The Israelis were exceptionally nervous about Iran’s success of developing nuclear ICBMs. and its Mossad had advanced knowledge of the invasion and the fact that somewhere in Turkey the Iranians and Turks were working on a biological warfare project. The New Crusades platform was to attack Israel and with Iran’s nuclear weapons the threat was imminent and deadly so in assisting the Greeks in repelling the Turks the Israelis felt they were sending a message to both Iran and Turkey it wasn’t going to sit still and get whacked.
So you can only guess what happened. The Americans nuked Ankara and Teheran and through regular bombing inflicted severe damage on military facilities in both these countries including a carpet bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Now while the United States and Israel felt somewhat safer the backlash in Muslim countries was even more hysterical than it had ever been. The New Crusades morphed from a Turkish dream into a glorious mission of Islam. And the American and global reaction of non-Muslim countries became one of increased hatred to the point it was getting as hysterical as the shouts coming from the New Crusades camp.
Strict security requirements were imposed to prevent the increasing frequency of suicide bomber attacks in the United States. All Turkish “guest workers” in Germany were deported unless they were German citizens. All Iranians and Turks who were not American citizens were deported.
As far as Canada reacted it closed its borders to all Turks and Iranians and it increased surveillance of all mosques and Islam “education centres” throughout Canada. The thin “official veneer” of the Canadian government concerning its care and compassion for Middle Eastern “refugees” was replaced with extreme hostility to all Muslims by the general population.
Throughout Europe and North America mosques were bombed fuelling the mounting New Crusades hysteria.
Before we end this awful story the Mossad had hacked into the highest level of secure Turkish military intranets where they discovered the “Armenian Final Solution” which was going to use the biological weaponry developed by Iran and Turkey to cleanse the world of Armenians. And the conclusion of the Mossad was Israel was also to be cleansed.
As for Turkey many of its key non-Muslim trading partners more of less placed a trade embargo on it devastating its economy increasing the fervor of the New Crusades movement.
The result of this was a complete polarization of Islam versus Christianity.
What a rat’s nest.s#26