Poetry

 1. for the sake of fame

For the sake of fame,

You’ll do what you have to do.

For the sake of fame

You’ll have us all do it too.

There’s a time and a heart for this.

Let my soul never miss,

A beat on this glorious stage of life.

I made my choices performing is my life.

Oh but for the sake of fame

I’ve endured some tasteless shit.

For the sake of fame,

I will not continue to do it.

For the sake of fame,

You’ll do what you have to do.

For the sake of fame,

You’ll have us all do it too.

(Rap Vocal Overlay x 12)

For the sake of fame,

I’ve watched people gag and choke.

For the sake of fame,

Angst out quickly and have a stroke.

For the sake of fame,

You’ll do what you have to do.

For the sake of fame,

You’ll have us all do it too.

Mary Angela Bowie Barnett

Lyrics from:  for the sake of fame from the moon goddess cd

2. Landmarks

I am so far from landmarks touched and cherished,

An exiled lover of all that England is

A million soldiers and writers perished

To keep that land they said as ‘tis.

Did no-one tell our wasted youth

Tomorrow’s aims are not their own.

Who warned them of the twisted truth?

Which politicians and the greedy loan

To some group called electorate,

At interest rates so high?

They risk their power every day,

People do not always buy.

How to compare a land as fair as heaven

Sweet as paradise with talent and intellect.

Electorate is surely people even as you and I.

If you now had to leave your home,

Wouldn’t you rather die?

I am sad so deep inside myself,

The shock of this straight fact

Does not really connect at all.

My heart and I have made a pact.

I shall not cry for what’s gone before,

I shall not swear or curse

But every day I am away from home

I shall always be the first to rave about my beautiful land

Our clever intellectuals, our brilliant industrialists

And the entertainers that entertain the world.

1975

Mary Angela Bowie Barnett

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