DON’T
BREATHE
BREATHE
(No
Point Plan)
Point Plan)
Empty
schools, keep them open,
schools, keep them open,
Ferry
service, keep them hoping.
service, keep them hoping.
Muskrat
Falls, no power aspire,
Falls, no power aspire,
And
can’t allow a full Inquire.
can’t allow a full Inquire.
Smile
and grin and don’t perspire.
and grin and don’t perspire.
Keep
on spending borrowed cash,
on spending borrowed cash,
On
payroll, pensions, programs vast.
payroll, pensions, programs vast.
With
silence seal unseemly deal,
silence seal unseemly deal,
An
undertow with gris surreal.
undertow with gris surreal.
Not
a word on corporate steal.
a word on corporate steal.
Shut
up, and do not breathe,
up, and do not breathe,
Do
nothing, lest the people seethe.
nothing, lest the people seethe.
Don’t
admit and don’t explain,
admit and don’t explain,
And
treat the public with disdain.
treat the public with disdain.
Hope
and pray that oil will gain.
and pray that oil will gain.
John Tuach
December
06, 2017
06, 2017
My schooling in the 50s and 60s honoured our Nfld poet Pratt. I once, in Grade 9, had a one page essay posted, by my teacher Hancock ( who may have went on as a professor at MUN?) in our class as an example of a good piece. Poetry nor writing showed promise for me.
Some great poets wrote about the evils of WWI, that get little attention here,where, it seems to me, the pro war "In Flanders Field" is largely the lone piece of poetry from the Great War taught to school children here, and as we now wind down in 2018 the 100th year commemoration or celebration of the end of WW1.
I much enjoy the cleaver pieces by this bard, and yet which attracts little comment. At MUN, I had problems with subjects like literature and English, but did good in science and math, which led me to engineering, and and a 4.5 year stint with Nfld Hydro, the well run company that, under Danny Williams got swallowed by Nalcor.
So, maybe my concept of cleaver writing of verse and poetry is out of step with others who fail to comment on these pieces.
Can others do better? Are there more bards hidden in our outports, or even in Sin Johns's?
Winston Adams