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Geoffrey Aitken

December 2019 –

free radicals

 

there is still an urgency

for unqualified confidence

and bullish bravado

at the top

still a place for

recklessness

and ongoing denial

without reservation

caution

deliberation

ongoing opportunity

for

sustained uncompromised attacks on truth

that is welcomed

cheered

and honoured

as if carelessness

is our anointed

blessed

chosen pathway

until one sees the horror

in the mirror

       of so much undigested History

 

Geoffrey Aitken was born in Adelaide, Australia in October 1950. A former tradesman and fitter, years later a mature graduate teacher of Senior School English - until a 2016 retirement. Aitken is regarded as an emerging poet in his home State of South Australia and is gaining increasing momentum with publishers like Underground Writers: Issue 27 & 28 (AUS), Glass Journal: Poets Resist (US), Flashes of Brilliance (US x 2), Aesthetica (UK), Pomme Journal (Fr) and Plum Tree Tavern (US), the most recent.

atos
Poor Doors
Sheriff Stars
spikes
Black Triangle
bedroom tax
Disrupt and Upset
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spikes
bedroom tax
Sheriff Stars

thistles stretch their prickly arms afar

Black Triangle
Disrupt and Upset

Militant Thistles

prickling the politics of "permanent austerity"

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