Yesterday she woke up
Mid-morning
To have a conversation
With the man in her life
To get answers
To why
He seemed unhappy
About her being his wife
It didn’t go well
If he had been a violent man
There would be parts of her
That would be swell-ed
And it wasn’t the fear of pain
That made her end the conversation quickly
It was the fear that
She would have no one to tell
Not even her friend
Today she laid down beside him
Uneasy
Thinking that this marriage
Hasn’t gone well
And deep down she wanted
For things to get better
But it was a hard sale
To hang on for more lines
Of what had turned into
A hard tale
The honeymoon had been a honeymoon
A precursor to storm
Gone was his charm
Gone was his arm
Connected to hands that
Would caress her curves
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Month: March 2012
Nobody Knows You…or You’re Rich
My musings on the current state of copyright laws in relation to art media and those who support its present application.
Nobody knows who you are
I’ve been looking at the issue of copyright for a while now. I’ve come to the conclusion that most of my antipathy isn’t towards big media companies but towards anonymous content creators who’ve bought into the company line. This is not to say those same companies have no blame in the whole endeavour but a solution should sometimes be approached from the bottom up. Those who feed the creative material into the system invariably are situated at the foundation. Maybe after years without recognition they’ve started to forget that they are the fuel that keeps the machine called entertainment running. Maybe they’ve forgotten that without their mass support the system would have to change to accommodate their needs and wants.
With that in mind, … Continue reading