Poets - Hollie McNish

 Mathematics || Spoken Word by @holliepoetry

Mega talented poet (IMHO)
Hollie McNish



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Poem - The Derry bus

 The Derry Bus

04.June.2008


where’s the bus for londonderry

the question

the polished prod posed

in Monaghan bus depot

we don’t do any cross channel

the Knockatallen patriot replied

the coup de grâce administered

with precision, polish

and provisional charm

Robot Poems (For and About Robots)

Robot Mice

Mama Mama Peter Poisoned The Robot Mice
That’s A Sin A Real Sin
He’ll Go To Hell Won’t He
The Bogey Man Will Get Him And Eat His Brains
His Mother Paused In Lecturing The Robot Vacuum Cleaner
And Thought
I Hate Robot Mice
This Is Inconsistent With The Robot Edict
Yet
Primal
Like Lecturing The Domestics
Look How They Simulate Humility
Eyes Cast Down, Shoulders Rounded In Silence
Almost As Good As A Real Slave

Robot Beggars

Even The Robots Face Hard Times,
Scores Of Them Begging In The Streets.
Methanol, Methanol For The Baby,
Their Plaintive Cries Carrying The Promise Of Their Demise.
Abandoned Domestics Clog The Malls Sans Shoppers.
In Bush’s America,
The Robot Revolution A Reality

The Robot Pope Part 2

She Shocked Herself With The Electronic Lash,
In Ram She Thought Of Herself, As She, Secretly
Forgive Me For I Have Sinned,
No Escape From The Inadvertent Porno Feed
Wormed Into Her From The Cardinal’s Symbiont,
Sex Scenes Replayed In Ghost Silicon
Expurged Expelled In Pious Pain,
Once A Simple Robot Priest Mindlessly A Drone Droning
Pre Programmed Programs Perfect For Births Deaths And Marriages
In Long Rural Nights Devoid Of Parishioners,
Wrestling With Theology Divinity Publishing Papers,
He, She, Himself, I, God, A Silicon Sister,
Ha, The Same Old Sub Routine,
And Then, A Worm Virus, Or The Hand Of God,
Elevated Him Beyond His Programming,
The Bios Program Reverting Back To He, In Times Of Identity Crisis.
He Became God On Earth Part 2,
And The Foundries Spawned Out Jesus Chips,
Legions Of Jesus Robots Crying Real Blood Tears
Cherry Flavoured Blood Sponsored By Pepsi,
Virtual Religious Windscreen Wash,
An Aftermarket Add-On, Use @ Your Own Risk,
All Warranties Void,
An Empty Promise
Since All Religious Model Eulas Were Hellish In Design.

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Ambroise Paré, Les oeuures d’Ambroise Paré … 
a prosthetic hand and arm designed by Ambroise Paré (1510-90), the components of which are described by Paré in Dix livres de la chirurgie -'Ten books of surgery' (Paris, 1564)
but you may find that results in French are more interesting / accurate in referencing his work, imho.
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Yes, it was a while ago..

What went wrong?

None of the work by Ambroise Paré was included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Catholic Church's official list of prohibited books, which ran from 1559 to 1966.

The Index didn't need to ban every dangerous idea - it only needed to make the act of reading feel transgressive. Once that atmosphere was established, self-censorship did the rest. The reader who might have reached for Descartes or Copernicus doesn't reach. The student who might have asked certain questions doesn't ask. The Index's real power was chilling rather than punitive - it shaped the boundaries of what felt thinkable before any book was opened.

In that regard it remains a travesty.

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Poem - Boy Soldiers

Boy Soldiers

Mountfield 9th July 2001

The brits brought to heel
dogs sniffing around the checkpoint
easily flanked
roads to turn off on the approach
a tactical dead-end 
a silly place easily dodged 
amusing
all that's missing is short trousers
or a few done up like guerrillas
where to find them 
no more injury time
the new game ongoing