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Ice Cremate

from Bug my Ride by mr sterile Assembly

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An autobiographical story while traveling on tour in Poland. The realisation and merging of colonial New Zealand history with the wider world, the actual sense of being next-door to history, next door to terror, & next door to horror. Middle 8 section addaption of poem by Bertolt Brecht

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Ice cremate

Naive boy
heard horror stories
forgotten easily with
sweetened treats.
Unknown soldier as the hero,
to aide the fascist fall from grace.
Grew with quiet assurance
in a distant lonely place.

Here in Poland,
OE away, out on tour.
The answer is for fun,
if the question is 'what for'?å
And make a break from travel
break out maps, I check this place.
The others gather ice cream,
then the then and now congregate.


Need to learn to look
instead of gawking
to see the horror in the
heart of farce.
If we could act
instead of talking,
we wouldn't always end up on our arse.
This thing, it nearly
had us mastered,
too soon to celebrate
'not again!
Then, the world stood
and stopped the bastard.
But the beast that bore him is on heat again.

Patterned page,
birds eye ambivalence.
But then and now, lost and found,
calculate the distance.
At least-worst I am a killjoy
when only minutes from vanilla.
But I'm tied in knots to see that I
sit three hours from Treblinka.

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from Bug my Ride, track released October 1, 2009

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