{"id":14488,"date":"2022-04-08T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/fog-and-slaughter-two-poems-on-the-war-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:40:52","slug":"fog-and-slaughter-two-poems-on-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/fog-and-slaughter-two-poems-on-the-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Fog and Slaughter: Two poems on the war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/d33547ddfc9abda50f6871bd03dc4943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/d33547ddfc9abda50f6871bd03dc4943.jpg 626w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/d33547ddfc9abda50f6871bd03dc4943-600x401.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/d33547ddfc9abda50f6871bd03dc4943-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/d33547ddfc9abda50f6871bd03dc4943-441x294.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/d33547ddfc9abda50f6871bd03dc4943-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/d33547ddfc9abda50f6871bd03dc4943-10x7.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Fog<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Rip Bulkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have to know. Brave journalists<br \/>both risk and lose their lives for that.<br \/>But information managers<br \/>are too strong for them. They flood us<br \/>with lies and photo opportunities.<br \/>If they told the truth, we would hear <br \/>words like <em>oil, gas<\/em>, and <em>wheat<\/em> more often.<br \/>Instead we get people yelling <em>Rus, aggressor,<\/em><br \/><em>crime, victim, Fascist<\/em>, and <em>genocide.<\/em><br \/>Like swifts we build a picture from this<br \/>manure. But let\u2019s face it; this is Punch<br \/>&#038; Judy without the sausages.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Slaughter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Rip Bulkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spare a thought for the murderers.<br \/>Failing to conquer, unprepared,<br \/>deceived, demoralized past bearing,<br \/>accursed sometimes by themselves,<br \/>left hopeless of happiness, they butcher<br \/>the defenceless who despise them.<br \/>They did not leave their homes for the<br \/>sake of Donbas gas and Black Sea oil,<br \/>or for any part of this. If they ever<br \/>return, they will not return. They, who<br \/>have already lost everything, suck<br \/>the bitter dregs of knowingly useless<br \/>displacement. The rules in hell are<br \/>incomprehensible to other people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fog by Rip Bulkeley We have to know. Brave journalistsboth risk and lose their lives for that.But information managersare too strong for them. They flood uswith lies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":14487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}