Optimism

How even Reading an Evening Post Report can Make you Wonder.

While the technocratic dinosaur rampages we in the fog of tears live on. The map of effluent in Wellington shows all the crap. Students, not all cartographers or biologists cram the library, humid air well conditioned. The TV, ghosting images, reports one village victorised by the B-52s. The Maori movement is small while cocktail liberals squeak inverse racists. I can't find the Dominion for the share pages and crapified ads. The lectcha womb is busting with two editorial readers and others. My house warm, carved fireplaces is going to be demolished by the wind of motorcar southerlies. The Southern man could win.

A few days ago, a quiet sun gently unfolded. It was not the Values Party but that was a nice idea. It was not the growth of OHMS but that is mushrooming. No mushrooms in Paris, thats for sure. It was not seeing a film from the northern half of Vietnam but that was interesting. Neither was the sun the warmth of talking with some friends but that was good. It was a weird event in American justice. A contradiction perhaps. Something happened.

Hope-there is hope. Even commie fuzzy headed Black intellectuals can get off for crimes they don't commit. Angela Davis is free.

People should think of that and let the pronouncements J. Edgar Hoover (best in pieces) rest in the 1930's where they belong, with shiny new Tricky Dick.

As students we could think of our studies and then look at the alcoholics in the streets and children who need creches and time. We have energy. Cynicism may be the code politicians like in geriactrics and apathists.

Hope - Davis is free, the FOL are trying to stop the French, Ohms is stirring Thomson's dapple grey cranium, people know South African police are not very sporting. Poetry is saying why oppress with set format. Why not write on walls? Why not laugh in, on the streets? Why not walk roads for fun or serious purposes? Why not continue the hard struggle against all war? Remember the Authorities words 'Thou shall not kill' we must try.

Oppression is the causing of mental and physical pain. Angela Davis's freedom is a step against oppression. Establishing new maraes with gut communalism is a way out of urban pain. Redefining sexual domination is motivating change. Graffiti is antispecification of where thou shalt transcribe. Creating our communities without domineering authoritarianism is a freeing. Burning draft cards is a way of fighting militarism and compulsion, aspects of oppression. Let us jump into the 6 foot of carpet that is supposed to separate our two polite parties. Rip it up and plant seeds. Stir. Make our own ways. Our own dreams our realities Conceive our own ideas and each act in our special way. Don't just intellectualise. Act! Lets move. Lets come together. Do something now! Action!

Stephen Hall.