In The Line Of Duty

Logicus tracticus · [Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:20 pm]

make a good kyrielle this..
(Killed in the line of duty) makes for a great refrain..
died for his country/ below ground lies he for the country.

simple and effective work that stirs the thoughts..

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read once for meter, twice for rhythm
thrice for rhyme, then again for
leisure or measure of pleasure;
you: parasites of no consequence:
Larkin

Chris Ripple · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:03 am]

Cheers for the crit'. I don't do it live so often these days but it always seemed to go down ok with an audience (and I don't often play to the 'converted') I'd much rather puncture or savage the life from a 'sacred cow'. It gives performing an edge... Plus, I still want to pose the question. Trouble is, it's policemen/women and people get emotive... No, they don't have the right to exterminate an innocent person and shrug it off as a mistake. We are supposed to be living in a democracy with a rule of law... But only if it suits them ?

bulldozer · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:20 am]

Hi, Chris

This a good polital poem, I think and it makes you think about the law also.

A good little poem.

Cheers

danny

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Chris Ripple · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:32 am]

Thanx 'Doze, The idea was just as you said. To MAKE people think. If it does then it worked. If it causes questions and debate then that's good as well. If that 'crime' is allowed to stand then you have to ask yourself who's next ? You ? Me ? Friend ? Relative ? and why... Because they can ? Once was enough and it has to stop there. Them's my feelings on the matter.

Tnarg · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:29 am]

Hi Mr. Ripple,
I feel I have to complain about this particular poem, Why have I not heard it live at one of your gigs?
(Probably because I've missed so much of the Stevenage / Hitchin scene being away with work)
Nice one!
Tnarg
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maipenrai · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:07 am]

a well wriiten piece that gets your point over well.
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I know that you have suffered lad
but suffer this a while
whatever makes a soldier cry
will make a killer smile

L. Cohen

Carson [<18] · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:10 pm]

Hi Chris,

Yes, I agree with ye. Good point, and made effectively through this poem.

It's like us over here, in Norn Iron. It's sickening, what they do when it suits them. Ye see terrorists like Martin McGuiness in government and making decisions for OUR country when not so long ago he was involved in mudering and bombing etc? Yet because the parties were willing to compromise they laid out the red carpet for the IRA and the republicans to walk into government. I mean, that's not right is it?

Sorry, I know I'm a bit off topic, but in a way it's the same principal. One rule for one..good, provocative poem. Thanks for the read,

Tim
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Chris Ripple · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:51 pm]

Hi Tim
Thanx for the words and I take your point re the ex I.R.A. but the Loyalists were equally as guilty of murder and mayhem at the time. When I was a youth back in Kingston (On Thames and not Jamaica) We had among the crowd of us an Irishman and a guy who enlisted in the Guards. We all sat together in the pub watching 'Bloody Sunday' unfold before our eyes. Two days later our Irish mate left to join his lot knowing that his friend was joining the Guards and his first posting was N.Ireland...
It took me nearly 25 years to write my feelings on it and the second time I performed it I received a death threat from what is known over here (yes, I know it's a derogatory term but an Irishman referred to him as such) as a 'Plastic Paddy'.
The following day I received another from somebody else... For writing and performing a poem ????????
And all because I refuse to blame. Peace and dialogue is the only answer to the problem.
Violence and fear never solved anything. But then I've never lived with that sort of fear and a lot of your fellow countrymen/women (both sides) have, and therein lies the problem...
Who can you trust ?
Thanx for calling the poem provocative, It was meant to be.

Tnarg, I get about a bit and so it's just a question of being in the right place at the right time and I have been working with the band rather than solo recently.

Mai', Thanx for the kind words, I tried...

scarletdancer · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:35 pm]

Hi Chris, as soon as the police bring in stun-guns, the better off everyone will be. It saves senseless killings. Where I live, even some universities have them, in case someone decides to go on a killing rampage. From memory, I think they have 50 volts of electricity and renders the offender helpless. cheers, scarlet Smile

Logicus tracticus · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:39 pm]

Chris Ripple · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:01 pm]

Hmmmmm... Not sure I agree 'cos guns are pretty easy to come by. I borrowed two off a couple of bikers I know when my shop got burgled twice in a week. I could have been Tony Martin if they'd come back a third time, plus I'm going to be 'laughing' at 'em in Africa in a months time... A gun is only as safe as the person who carries it and if the police are issued stun guns then the bad guys will have Kalashnikov's...

scarletdancer · [Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:41 pm]

stun-guns are for use by the police only, and for some people at universities where we have had a couple of mass murderers. Regular guns are not for every Tom, Dick or Harry. We have gun legislation here and only people with special gun licenses; which have to be applied for, have got the right to have them. cheers, scarlet Smile

I didn't see you comment before, Logicus. Very funny lol. scarlet Smile

maipenrai · [Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:10 pm]

and if the police are not equipped the bad guys will still carry y/n?
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I know that you have suffered lad
but suffer this a while
whatever makes a soldier cry
will make a killer smile

L. Cohen

Chris Ripple · [Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:58 pm]

Er, can I just point out that those stun guns are fifty thousand volts of electricity
and not fifty. If you've got a weak heart for any reason then you're dead and they might as well have just shot you anyway.

scarletdancer · [Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:48 am]

sorry, I met 50 thousands volts Embarassed

Well, that's the price of vicious crime. There have only been a few deaths from stun guns, whereas the use of guns is causing a greater number of deaths. And they were a few junkies who had od'ed; commiting violent crimes, which being od made all the difference to their dying or not. Today, a policeman shot and killed a man, and if he had been using a stun gun the offender would still be alive. The use of stun guns has no compare to the deaths by gun. So, I think when all cops get and use a stun gun, everyone will be better off. cheers, scarlet Smile

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