Jackboot Blues

Linebreaks by Glenn Buttkus

Jackboot Blues

Music and politics;
I'd like to pontificate
on the important difference
between the two events,
how the political one
was actively helping
change the world situation
and "save democracy",
as Dwight Pelz put it,
thereby making it
the important thing,
but I don't really think
the choice of politicians
will have any
but the most negligible effect
on the crushing weight
of historical drift.

Democracy comes and goes.
Fascism comes and goes.
Or, more accurately
it all exists
at the same time
and all we can do
is "know when to hold 'em",
et cetera.

But music
is always music;
sharp eyed students
of logic
will notice that
the foregoing two analyses'
express the same philosophy.

Doug Palmer September 2008