WAR & PISS
Dishonorable discharge?
Much indignation when a drunken student (hardly an oxymoron) urinated on a War
Memorial recently (Sheffield, 11th October 2009).
Funnily enough, 19 year old Philip Laing had been on the aptly-named “Carnage”
pub crawl for students, which is perhaps preferable to participating in the actual carnage
of war. Bear in mind how many soldiers of his age & even younger have died in bloody
pointless battle.
Why is relieving nature on an inanimate object, whatever its symbolic significance,
considered more offensive than war itself where throughout the ages countless millions
have lost their lives? Isn't making water better than making war?
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"Carnage is the name of the organisation who promote this type of
activity.
“The image of your urinating on the poppy wreath at the war memorial in this city
will make most turn away in disgust, shock and sadness. It has undoubtedly distressed and
upset many. The war memorial is a sacred and special place.”
District Judge Anthony Browne
Sheffield Magistrate's Court
(4th November 2009)
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PISSED
dolce et decorum est pro patria mori
in vino veritas
wash away the blood of war
we don't want it anymore
nor memorials of yore
to all that gore
that poured in torrents from the fallen poor
sure no-one is above the law
yet if you're not at liberty to pee
in what sense are you truly free
so urinate without restraint
new water cleanses blood's old taint
you'll do well to irrigate
red poppies for their opiate
mainline morphine in a vein
or drown your sorrows to kill pain
blood sweat tears soak earth like rain
mourners repeat a worn refrain
never again
forget remembrance of the dead
celebrate today instead
life is to be lived you know
let liquor love & laughter flow
& if you have to go just go
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