Images
of a pint of stout settling in a glass and a mushroom cloud growing
over an atomic bomb blast site are uncannily resonant of each other.
It
is no coincidence that the
speech at the UN by Iranian president and cleric Hassan Rouhani
about
nuclear disarmament and Diageo's big Guinness promotion, Arthur's Day, should
happen at the same time.
As
I sat lookin' up at the Guinness ad I could never figure out
How
your man stayed up on the surfboard after 14 pints of stout.
Then
US Special Forces raid houses in Libya and Somalia. Citizens wonder
if Libyan and Somali Special Forces will now
raid
houses in the USA.
The
stout is not settled in the glass. The US Federal Government is not
functioning fully at home.
Have
another pint/punt, this one overseas. Get up on that surfboard,
kiddo.
Is
any country? Settling or functioning?
Citizens
say 'hang on a minute'. Citizens have been emboldened by the stop
they put on plans to bomb Syria.
Hold
that mushroom cloud.
Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, Russian Roulette
Inspectors
take sledge hammers to machines that generate chemicals in Syria.
Citizens
surfing on news-waves try hard to stay out of the water. Try hard not
to drown.
There
is a wave of further deaths in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
As
I sat lookin' up at the Guinness ad I could never figure out
How
your man stayed up on the surfboard after 14 pints of stout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1NQi_Vit0
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