Sinestre

capiche

In Miltons mind

and Nick Caves cave

the blood red right hand

fist clenched

raised towards a 

burning sky

a symbol/totem

for the godz of

lost godz and pride

the left hand

is free,

the writing hand

the fighting hand

the butterfly knife hand

the backward write handed

wrong handed/ footed fool

fist clenched still,

thrust into a 

burning sky

Black Flag tattoo

mocking Democracy

beware the left handers,

because ole lefty has got

his one good syphilitic 

eye on you ;

Reviews

[Eilis]

Just have to mention that as I'm commenting on this, there is an ad asking whether Trump deserves a second term in office. I'll leave that question to answer itself. Does seem a fitting ad when connected to the idea of 'mocking democracy,' though--though I know that's not how you mean it here. Black Flag would not, I don't think, approve of his brand of applying the middle finger to tradition.

I saw this, on my few reads, (in part) as a celebration of the lopsided mind of creativity. The left-hand being kind of symbolic of repression where so many people have been forced to be right-handed when that wasn't what came naturally to them.

But in the universe of your poem, that repression lends a sort of power where the creative side (something inner) can be more freely explored...being somewhat off-center. Of course, there's something else there that's tickling my mind. Perhaps the idea that there is an inter-play between that dynamic of a symbolic free hand, the repression and how that can backfire to create something a little more of the title of the poem. I'm probably trying too hard.

Hmm, I'll have to think on it. But out of view of that syphilitic eye. Even though I feel it trying to follow me out of the room. Us right-handers can be pretty good at hiding.

[gram linski]

Another mad ramble , I do love your insightful reviews, Eilis, I swear you think about my poems more deeply than I do, and you see more deeply than me, we just got Boris Johnston as new unelected Prime Minister, check British news if you want a clusterfuck, imagine the two of them in a room together

[Eilis]

Yeah, I’ve been watching UK politics with my hands over my eyes for some time. I was shocked when he was chosen. I guess he’s better than, say, a Farage, but. What’s even stranger is the way MP’s are surprised by his behavior. I mean...

I’m hoping things turn out better there for y’all than they look like they will at present.

[gram linski]

right back at ya, cat s**t, dog s**t is still a s**t sandwich, after all, lol,

[barleygirl]

I've been beyond the political loop since stopping satellite TV a few months back, so I don't see in your msg the clear-cut stuff regarding right & left. But that's what I like about your poem . . . you're not doing all the obvious stereotyping. Neither side looks particularly inviting nor evil here. What I get: each side stands with fist (impasse) while boogeyman takes advantage of this & slips in to wreak syphilitic havoc *wink! wink!* Fondly, Margie

[gram linski]

haha, kinda, sorta , not quite, more an internal personal kinda thing, no politics to see here, lol, thanks for the read

[Robert Trakofler]

I knew something was wrong about you... scourge of society those lefthanders I say! I was tasked with learning a couple of nick cave tunes years ago for a band butchering cover and I never got into him much but we did a rousing rendition of to sir with love:) love the voice in this write Gram the angst looks good on ya

[gram linski]

haha, the angst and the anger do seem to be my best qualities, thanks ,B.

[Ted Kniffen]

Differences are not tolerated and toleration is decidedly different.

I was born a "lefty" … and still do most things with that hand...but I was forced to learn to use my right hand because my great grandmother would not allow a lefty in her house as it was bad luck.

Of course the terms sinister and gauche are both French words for left.

This new age cannot be paradise lost when it's never been found.

A good one, Gram.

[gram linski]

cheers Ted, I used to get smacked with a ruler at school, happy days,

[DAH]

Ah, the glorious mind of NIck Cave, an excellent reference!

To be different is to be different, what else can one say ... ?

I really like this piece in all of it sinister "totems", in its truth
in being dissimilar to others.

I'm a lefty, so I understand ...

Cheers,
Dah
to

[gram linski]

Thanks for the read DAH, it's the simple things like trying to write on a white board, or a smear board as I call them, lol

[DAH]

Simplicity is the gentleness of being. And the pleasure is mine.

[gram linski]

they just found a DNA link between being left handed and the brain, apparently we are better at language than our poor right handed foolish friends

[DAH]

Love this info. Thanks, gram!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

beware those left handers...beware of anyone different...they are out to get you.
why does everyone have to be the same or they are outcasts...
it's like driving in Trinidad when my folks lived there...and Americans would claim that over there they drove on the wrong side of the road.
not the left side, the wrong side..

j.

[gram linski]

well as a Brit, we drive on the right side, which is the left side, so your side is definitely the wrong side, thanks for reading, j.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

gee thanks, gram.....you got me so confused i ran off the road...now i am just sitting, idling, trying to figure out what side i should be on.
:)))

[gram linski]

just watch out for the roundabouts, that's where the fun really begins,

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Synister stuff from the master of dark poetry. I simply love Peaky Blinders and the theme so this appealed to me as it provoked images of 1920s Birmingham as portrayed in the series. Well done sir says I in mimic of the grand big 'E'

[gram linski]

we are both thinking of the same nick cave song except you are watching tv, and I'm writing it doon,