[ssf] uv :: v ) on kings and secret rings a) sovereignty
amadan mor
adam at diamat.org.uk
Tue May 1 12:18:15 BST 2007
"all of us are the children born of the damsels
whom amangons and his men raped --
these great wrongs
shall never be redeemed
in wordly time
we are bound to travel in common,
knights and damsels,
through this land
until god wills that
the court of joy be found,
for that will make
the land bright again"
-- the elucidation ~ 1230
in elizabethan times shakespeare wrote
upon this archipelago, and beyond
of kings, their battles, secret ambitions
crimes, courts, resolutions
hansard and analogous records
records these things presently
to me, in a less comprehensible fashion
sovereignty's image appears world over
on stamps and bank notes, faces, institutions
past present heroins princes land-thoughts
sovereignty's regalia, co-dominions
many images, mapping out the currency
of social and economic intercourse
respectively banding the strands
of the ideas, the imaginary that form us
the why of our mappings
manifests in complex reality bindings --
social niceties of rarefied times
compressed into temporal defence
who comes lapping against the shores --
what end justifies the means king
rang 911, madrid, london
ripping through core common mantle
other mappings -- walled cities, check-points
fronts, disease, danger, death
exclusion zones, demarked territories
chequer game reality --
-- full spectrum imaginary war games
acted, role-played, multiple scenarios
move through dress rehearsal
to the theatre of the real
sovereignty chooses her own representatives
tests and trains her champions
bestowing rings of invisibility
giving free capacity to her command
echoes her command --
the means justifies the end
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