Helge’s Substack
Helge’s Substack
PART TWO: VOICE RECORDING OF MY RANT POEM "I'M LOOKING FOR MY COUNTRY"
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PART TWO: VOICE RECORDING OF MY RANT POEM "I'M LOOKING FOR MY COUNTRY"

FIRST WRITTEN 1986 FIRST PERFORMED AT THE COMMUNITY ARTS WORKSHOP 1988

that BLACK man over there, he should be ahead and that man over there

he’s lost his CRUTCH not much to be done I’m AFRAID to DATE nothing much

has been happening that’s gonna make me take off

although I never thought I would live to see the release of the world’s most famous

PRISONER instead I land with a SCREECH about who is killing WHO

not much building to be done today but didn’t I say that

I was looking for my country?

the WEST they say is confused with some kind of a test the rest are headed towards

some kind of a PLAGUE SCAREMONGERING in a way that would make any MONKEY

wear a SHEATH the age of COUNT the cost is upon us the NEW shall sweep away the

old even though they act so BOLD but out there somewhere is a country

WAITING for the BREAK

waiting for the INFORMATION

waiting for the NEW GENERATION

take me he she it they theirs those these them I

I’ve been waiting quite a long while now and the CLOAK gets heavier

and someone is switching off all the LIGHTS the DARKNESS

never scared my though I have my own light tonight

TONIGHT I wish I would fall in love LOVE love love love but that GLOVE

you’re wearing is so COLD its OLD hey didn’t I say

there was a country here?

PRAY I’ve heard them say that we should pray but the only thing that truly preys

around here are those REAL animals we only get to see on our TV SCREENS

then someone went and blamed the lack of OZONE on an aerosol can and clean

forgot about the ATOMIC contest

I wonder who’s MONEY is invested

this large ZOO has me tongue tired and then someone went and tied our hands

behind our backs and the TRACKS were washed away in the FLOODS

BLOOD BLOOD flows thicker than water in any COLOUR mother, mother

I’m just looking for my country

help me help me help me don’t just stand there THROW a cartwheel

place a bet or just get the hell out of here or else I’ll tell the world on you

I could go to hell for you in fact I’ll get a HARD ON for you if you’ll only just stay

and play with some kind of REAL interest not thinking about what to TAKE

but rather trying to MAKE something out of it,

this CENTRE WHICH CANNOT HOLD

like a CAMEL on the tip of an ICEBERG

like a BEAST that cannot BEAST

and WHO told you to THINK for yourself huh?

you want to be a REBEL too?

They make it THAT easy but don’t go thinking that it is THAT EASY

or how about being like one of those university lecturers who seem to think

that ANARCHISTS come in package deals?

The TRUTH is hard to come by REALITY is in short supply and just try

just try and stop them making BOMBS! Didn’t I hear them say there was a

country here looking for me?

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