by Lynn White
Time And Place
What did he do
that little boy
when he Resisted
the Occupation,
for that was the charge
against him.
If he killed,
it seems
it was a soldier
out of place
illegally placed
in that place.
But sometimes
in some places
illegal becomes legal
and resistance is criminal.
Sometimes
in those places,
to exist
is crime enough
for some,
those
whose childhood is stolen
whose youth is stolen
whose land is stolen
like that boy
in that place
where power
not law
defines legality.
Freire And Illich Are Dead
No more need for
free-schooling,
deschooling,
conviviality
or purpose,
Freire and Illich are dead.
No need for anti-bullying
strategies,
family therapy,
strategies
against exclusions
voluntary
or enforced.
No need for Play Therapy
or Adolescent Therapeutic Centres,
they are as dead as Freire and Illich.
The solution is as sharp and clear
as the banning of blades for sale.
No knives, no stabbings.
And almost cost free,
free as words
are free.
Just stay out of the kitchen.
Tired of Waiting
From Langston Hughes to Ray Davies,
from the political to the personal
and back again,
back and forth,
back and forth.
From Kissinger to the newbie
pretenders standing in line
moving back and forth,
back and forth.
From Stockholm to The Hague
back and forth,
back and forth.
We are so tired,
so very tired,
but all we can do is wait
to see where we shall find them.
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