Welcome to The Baby Wants It’s Bottle Philosophy & Poetry Inc. Podcast, a creative project by Martin Anton Smith, a NZ based creative.

In this episode I read two New Poems that are short and simple. One is fun the other is serious and is an ode to ww1 fallen. The first one about a Seagull was done when someone posted a picture of a seagull who was looking hungrily in from behind the window pane at the diners to a beachside restaurant. The poster had also written a short a poem & I thought I could do better so I wrote one too.

The second poem is in the form of first person and relates the battlefront thoughts from a young, probably doomed ww1 fighter. I wrote this to help – albeit in my microscopic way, given I have no profile or reach yet – in the real battle for remembering History. I think we have in many ways entered into a dangerous “Post History” epoch, especially for the young, our future citizens and shapers of the world. I say that without an appreciation of History (especially History of the 20th Century) we are as Ben Franklin ‘s famous quote relates- “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”.

We as citizens must always remember Franklin’s wise words – we should be wary of the clipboard, think tank and public servant classes and their secret drawings up of the next bad law which is sold to us with the label “This draconian measure has to be done for the publics safety, because we say so and your great unwashed input is not required”.

We must reign in the “Think Tank Classes” that increasingly act to advise and drive Government policy. These “Think Tankers” are members of elitist clubs, whose membership entails them to always “punch down”, hurting the everyman.

Don’t be stupid and tell yourself “This doesn’t happen in our little isolated Country”. If we ignore the need to act as good citizens and thus in the true sense of the term “community leaders”, we risk a mindless war like ww1 repeating.

We in NZ as a whole are too apolitical and simple minded on political and social issues, and this has already led to a divided society over the last 40 years, that frays at too many edges. We must fight for an inclusive society, and engage properly to ensure this happens, we must leave our caves an engage. This re-awakening can reverse the damage done to or social fabric by dodgy politicians and greedy unthinking faux aristocrats since 1984.

People in NZ and other countries should realise that by allowing ‘Blackrock Investments’ and other soul-less international and some local portfolio barons to out bid the general public for their workers and family homes, we are blowing up all we have worked for over the last 200 years in building this formerly hardy self sufficient little nation.

On matters of admin the podcast has been widened to include more social commentary and philosophy and so a new moniker is “The Baby Wants It’s Bottle Philosophy and Poetry Inc.”. I look forward to speaking my essays I have written recently and also from a few years ago.

Anyway, enough with the intro and lets begin with the poems.

‘The Seagull at The Window Pane‘

“Tap Tapitty Tap”

They Gaze Up From The Seafood Platters,

Only To See Him At The Window Pane.

A Maritime Clothing Inspired Gent,

Peers In From Behind The Glass.

“He’s Green Lipped With Envy” she says.

“Don’t Be Silly” he says so dry:

“He Has Chips Galore, & There’s a War On”

‘To Ypres 1915, From 2021’

‘The Great War’ Was A Gas.

Mustard, To Be Exact.

Oh Why Oh Why Did I Enlist?

My Dreams Of ‘Battlefield Glory’

Were Dashed And Replaced

With Blindness in Ypres

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