{"id":168,"date":"2013-06-27T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/wp\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2013-06-27T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:29:58","slug":"poetry-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/?page_id=168","title":{"rendered":"Poetry 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twocolumns\">\n<div class=\"leftcolumn\">\n<h2>Our Future<\/h2>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">Once upon a time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">in our not so distant past<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">stood a beautiful, a unique world,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">laden with promise,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">a world where our future was open,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">our potential vast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">Now, seduced by glinting tinsel of the mad<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">our reason quivers<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">on the edge of a dark abyss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">We have created a world<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">where wastelands abound<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">where we<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">the many, the marginalised, the ordinary,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">struggle to survive in voracity that astounds<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">are seduced<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">to create wastelands in our minds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">slowly accepting chaos<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">in a world of insanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">Here corporate monsters<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">of hypocrisy, contradictions,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">sever the fragile cord<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">that unites being with being<\/p>\n<p>,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rightcolumn\">\n<h2>Pinnacle of Evolution<\/h2>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">There\u2019s a crazy ape, who<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">by means of incredible intransigence<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">has mastered the art of carnage;<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">through dogged determination<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">in a ruthless rampage<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0 lastline\">raised the body-count beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">This crazy ape<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">creates the human chronicles<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">as a cruel callous calendar,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">transforms our indulgent earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">into a primitive barbaric abattoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">He struts across the land<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">with bumptious pride;<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">he\u2019s destructive, he\u2019s devious,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">demands dominion<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">planet wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">His claim to fame,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0 lastline\">history immortalised in rivers of blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">Even so,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">this crazy ape called man, believes<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">he\u2019s the GODS\u2019 sublime solution,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">progress\u2019s perfection,<\/p>\n<p class=\"verse indent0\">the pinnacle of evolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Future Once upon a time, in our not so distant past stood a beautiful, a unique world, laden with promise, a world where our future was open, our potential vast. Now, seduced by glinting tinsel of the mad our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/?page_id=168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"showcase.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}