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Sometimes I am ashamed of this picture (right). What do I have to hide from? But life can be the most horrendous Homeric simile, at once a wee word, that says 'pissed' which becomes 'pissed off' then it carries itself into meanings beyond comprehension. A guy gets pissed at his mama, so he shoots her, then another 27 people including 20 kids who never signed the sanity clause but waited for Christmas with songs about being Away in a Manger, and the simile is extended beyond this meaning. Its easy to jump into the gun lobby debate (well overdue) but where does it sit in prioritising the USA's horrendous health care, mental health care, deprivation, the whole of New Orleans being washed out while the Bush-man fiddled from his ivory tower, designing a foreign policy, sheriff in a hick town mentality. God and country has a lot to answer for when a country's allegiance is assembled around a flag and a gun, and then the simile extends itself across the country and around the world, napalm, cluster bombs and the evil drones that can be piloted 2000 miles away - its very far - our hearts were singing, it felt like Christmas time (but last night it wasn't and this song of longing will resonate):
