"Following our intervention M- & M- agreed to fell and/or prune back several overgrown and unsafe trees as residents of S- Drive experienced problems with Sky reception"(This from our 'community' council).
change till now did never come to thee/For time beheld thee as his sacred dower/And nature claimed thee her domestic tree
The children sought thee in thy summer shade
In the small dip to the side of our house, old trees stood; survivals, because the slope and hollows in which they stood is unbuildable-on, and so they link us to the day of lane and field. Children play happily on ropes slung from their branches and on fallen boughs on the ground they sit, or pick red currants, but
I see a picture that thy fate displays/And learn a lesson from thy destiny/Self interest saw thee stand in freedoms ways/So thy old shadow must a tyrant be
It is important, of course, that tv must be seen. Who can deny, the new enclosers of the land.
With axe at root he felled thee to the ground/And barked of freedom-O I hate that sound/It grows the cant terms of enslaving tools
To go and hack down! petitioning only the self-appointed guardians of community.
We have brought this on ourselves, I am reminded of Winstanley.
No matter - wrong was right and right was wrong/And freedoms brawl was sanction to the song/Such was thy ruin music making Elm/The rights of freedom was to injure thine/As thou wert served so would they overwhelm/In freedoms name the little so would they over whelm/And these are knaves that brawl for better laws/And cant of tyranny in stronger powers/Who glut their vile unsatiated maws/And freedoms birthright from the weak devours
No matter children and crows disappointment, some can watch Nickelodeon.
(quotes from John Clare and our community council)
"It is important, of course, that tv must be seen."
ReplyDeleteSynchronicity: I just bought a 2nd-hand book entitled 'What Happens When A By-Pass Is Built', aimed at schoolkids in the 70s. There's a page that deals with an imaginary group of families who must be moved from their old homes to make way for the new road. One of the items on the short list of advantages to be enjoyed by the displaced folk is the ability to watch TV in their new homes, which they lacked previously because their now-demolished cottages had no electricity. Such progress!
Here's the cover, in case you're interested:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bollops/4882974399/
Thanks for this. Took a look at this (& the whole book you've put up) - extraordinary stuff. What I like/find frightening about these kinds of books is the cult-like, incantatory simplicity in the way the message is put across. I'm looking forward to the one about drowning a valley. Will definitely be following the Hauntology group on flickr now
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