Mar
19thQuick Cut & Paste
In the housing co-op I live in, there is an internal email system for members to communicate with each other about domestic goings on, and sometimes people post things they think might interest others. Today someone posted a call-out from Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition, and directly beneath it they had posted the summary from the bird-watching course they are doing. I wondered what the two posts might look like if they were spliced together. This is my ‘found’ poem: On the Cusp of Spring The sun shone and to herald spring Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, Coal tit, Blue tit and Goldfinch sang to our gathering With the bloody and failing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan still in place, the USA, Britain and France are now committed to an escalating armed intervention in Libya. Sheep grazed on improved grassland which usually means that there is little to be noted on such bland landscapes but we managed to note Woodpigeon, Stock Dove and Mistle Thrush before we moved along the road in our search for more bird friendly habitat The decision to attack Libya and impose regime change – for that is what the UN resolution means – may have been authorised by the Security Council. But it was instigated by the despots of the Arab League, desperate to secure deeper western involvement in the region to save them from their own peoples. And it will be implemented by the same powers which have wreaked such mayhem throughout the Arab and Muslim [...]