Ramadan in AD 2005!

Fasting in London in a media-propelled
climate of terror !
"Muhammad Haque Political Poetry”
4 October 2005

Extracts:

But what is terror?
And why is terror?
Who is terror?
When is terror?
Where is terror?

I will let you in
on a big secret
as secret
as a blatantly blazing
inferno
from Hell
burning lies
prejudice
hatred
fear
intolerance


It is that ‘secret’!

The truth is that
I never met terror
at least not ‘Terror’
until I woke up one
morning in London
and was distracted
by the overdressed
over-dolled up
over-empty
presenter on the BBC
screen

uttering what sound
almost exactly like
one of the millions
of plasticity performances
that I have suffered
as brought to me via
the BBC
featuring
the world’s
most unbelievable
rentable statesman
the Reverend Jesse
Jackson

who became to me
a symbol of embarrassment
rather than of dignity

when he made himself
available to lend his
image and his sound
to the media lynching
of Clarence Mitchell
around Mitchell’s
nomination for US Supreme Court by an avidly right-wing US President.

I felt that Jesse jackson discredited
the cause of justice for women
when he did the rabbit-rated
rendition on variations of
Anita Hill’s name

Why I felt that outraged by
Jesse Jackson’s availability ?

Because had Jesse Jackson
been really concerned about justice


I could have said
the same about a
host or a hundred
other video news outlets


had I had the nuance
in time to pay attention
to the matter of what matters
and had amassed dollops
of degeneration dosh
apparently being injected
into the UK inner cities
under the degenerate
agenda of Anthony Blair

I could have installed
all manner of video and
tv receiver devices
and added to the suffering
of the senses

and would
in the process of
inner cites degeneration
have lost
the remnants of whatever
constitutes common sense


As it happens
I only can afford a restricted
contraption of almost
obsolete variety

capable of marginal
albeit frequently unreliable
BBC terrestrial reception
BBC terrorising conception
BBC terrible deception
BBC terroriser redifussion
BBC terrorists’ obsession
BBC treacherous confection


My sense of terror was from being
a licence payer in the UK
which means that I can
be one of millions of UK
residents who are daily
be targeted by the BBC
as they flicked before me
the arrays of ethnic surrogates
vacuous immoral duplicates
of the original vicious vessels
of lying perfect impeccable
broadcasting degenerates

they struck terror
as they uttered it in full
as they embellished it
as they elongated it
as they abbreviated it
as they turned it up
as they turned it down
as they countryed it
as they regioned it
as they zoned it
as they darkened it
as they whitened it
as they blanked it
as they blunted it
as they brazened it
as they ethnicised it
as they minoritied it
as they majoritied it

....”