Waiting at Machynlleth Station

 

Waiting at Machynlleth Station

I’ve always wanted to put ‘Machynlleth’ in a poem

because its very hard to pronounce

and I do like to see people struggle, tripping over the ch and the ll.

Life is hell when you are waiting at Machynlleth Station

Flooding on the tracks at Dyfi Junction.

Well if you will build your railway next to an Estuary.

There’s parking at Bow Street mun!

Cletwr Café is a request stop.

There is a Comedy Festival for those in need of a paid, artificial laugh.

In the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Parliament

Lycra clad cyclists on their way to Dylife to be beheaded.

The Hippies are here.

Preaching to old Welsh Farmers that re-wilding is good for their chakra.

A Bus on diesel leaves for London to protest our extinction.

Rebellion?

 mae’n hen bryd cael gwrthryfel yn y dref farchnad lawn Brummies.

Passing through?

I wish.

No, I’m waiting at Machynlleth Station.

The age of the bogey man

https://culanth.org/fieldsights/time-of-monsters 

"A monster speaking with the voice of reason, not the heart; science, not pathos; realism, not faith or idealism."

We are living through the age of the bogey man bois bach. The bwci-bo. This time, the adults are not using the carrot to beat children with the behaviour stick. This time, similar to Germany in the 1930s we are seeing the othering of people. From refugees and asylum seekers to members of the trans community. Russia & China are back in the news as the global, international bogey men. Israel continues to beat Palestine into submission on a daily basis. 

It is easier when citizens are facing difficult economic decisions and situations. We are in a perfect storm of austerity and it is easier then for malevolent forces to stoke up culture wars, prejudice and appeal to our darker shadow. 

Who knew that there was such a noticeable landmark as the Holiday Inn in Cannock, Staffordshire? The Holiday Inn, the Hotel of Hate. Braverman's boot boys, the Patriotic Alternative have groomed Tracey and Caz who didn't know what Fascism was until they arrived. They couldn't even create a Facebook page. I have just de-activated mine.

You can understand why governments would wish to push the bogey man agenda. To keep us in our place, to keep us well behaved. The bogey-man of Brexit, the bogey-man of Covid, the bogey-man of refugees and asylum seekers and before I enrage the mens' rights movements the bogey-man is non gender specific. The bogey-person could be our anima or animus.

From the Salem & Pendle Witch Hunts, from the McArthyite House of UnAmerican Activities we don't need much excuse to go out with our flaming torch, pitchfork and placard to exorcise our own bogey-man of Communist Witches. Much of what we observe in human behaviour around the othering of the bogey-man is projection and fear. Our limbic system has got used to the sub-standard of living in our British and American homes and we don't want anybody from another cave coming along and taking a piece of our inaction.

Here in Wales we have our very own Anti-Trans Hate Preachers who use their heads and not their hearts to 'other' the Trans Community with a variety of intellectual and pseudo-scientific arguments. The biggest argument that these hate preachers use is the bogey-man of being woke. They see that the trans community are much more likely than them to feel compassion, empathy and kindness so they are othered as sexual and criminal deviants who are coming for our wives and our children.

Perhaps Patriotic Alternative should consider changing their name to Paedophile Alternative. Those who scream the loudest about paedophilia are obviously exorcising the dark bogey-man at the back of their own subconscious. Projection occurs when people cannot deal with their own feelings and then project it on to others. The Metropolitan Police are struggling with racism, sexism and homophobia because we as a society are just that, despite what liberal, lefty wokerati may claim.("Labels, everybody needs good labels"🎵) 

We are living in the time of monsters many of which we are creating in our own minds. Physician, heal thyself.               

Instead of buying a second hand car I'll write a poem

 

Instead of buying a second hand car
I’ll write a poem 

Wanted

Something ‘reliable’ to get me from A to B

to do some shopping or go away on a trip

I’m not paying for mod cons

I don’t want anything slick

It’s as if the car and the garage on Autotrader

know that it’s me.

The man who has had no luck with cars since passing his test

I don’t know why I bother, I should give it a rest.

I’ve had a Morris Minor and an Austin 1300

a Mini and a Metro, a Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Nova

a Citroen ZX and a Mazda Demio

They’ve broken down and been broken into

I bought a brand new Renault Clio because I got a job

then had to give it back when I had the sack.

I always blamed the car but maybe it was me and my mind

My temperament and road rage

turned the car into wheels with a cage.

I felt imprisoned in a traffic jam as if it would never clear

I drove everywhere in a cloud of fear.

So now that I am much older

and the weather’s been that much colder

I’m looking for something to replace my legs and a bike

Maybe I should go back to my first vehicle

and invest in a Trike.    

Further Reading

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-great-british-pubic.html

 

'Stop all the Boats, Labour wont'

Stop all the boats, Labour wont Prevent the refugees and asylum seekers from Perfidious Albion, With Dog Whistle and with Braverman Bring out the coffins for those who have drowned. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky 'POPULIST CONSERVATISM IS DEAD' Tory Ministers sit down to watch Match of the Day, There's a new presenter with not a lot to say. They come from the South and the East We in the the North and West think that we are best, It's noon, it's midnight, there's talk and song; The protestors outside the hotel in Knowsley were wrong. The stars are looking down on desperate ones; Under the moon the people smugglers come; as they make their way through the ocean on pieces of wood Nigel Farage and his loud haler are up to no good. With apologies to W H Auden

 Chwarae Soldiwrs

Blynyddoedd maeth yn ôl

mi faswn yn chwarae soldiwrs

yn chwarel yn Llanarmon yn Iâl

Gynau plastig, du a gwyrdd

yn gwneud sŵn fel rhai go iawn

Syrthio yn farw

i godi eto fel rhyw fath o atgyfodiad plentynnaidd

Plant yn cael ail gyfle ble mae ei thadau dros y canrifoedd di marw

ar ryw gae estron sydd Lloegr am byth.

Mi allith unrhyw un cyfiawnhau rhyfel

 ond mae'n cymryd y dewr i wrthod y galwad i fyny.

Dim ond yn hynach mi ddes i ddeall fy mod fy nhad i yn un o rheina

'Ymwrthodwr Cydwybodol' 

Geiriau sydd di gael ei dwyn heddiw gan rheina wrthododd y brechlyn a'r mwgwd

Ond ar y pryd, safiad oedd yn fwy moesol.

Mi wnaeth o wisgo'r khaki fel 'non combatant' 

adeiladu Nissan Huts i'r Americanwyr, Gwarchodwr yn y 'Prisoner of War' Camps

i'r Almaenwyr oedd yn sobor ac i'r Eidalwyr a oedd yn hwyliog.

Ymwrthod ar sail ei Gristnogaeth dan ddylanwad pregethwyr

 roedd wedi gweld hunllefau ar ffosydd Ffrainc yn y rhyfel byd cyntaf.

Dwi meddwl roedd o'n difaru ac efallai fasa fo ddim wedi gwneud yr un dewis eto

ond dwi'n siŵr roedd o'n faich i gael mab oedd yn gofyn rownd y rîl

"Beth wnes di yn y rhyfel Dad?"      

Caerfyrddin/Carmarthen #stori #cymraeg #Caerfyrddin

Cofnodion Dyddlyfr Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau

 

Mi fasa yn arbed amser i chi ag i mi os tasech chi yn gallu dweud wrtha’i trwy'r dyddlyfr yma os ydw i yn gymwys i unrhyw fudd-dal o gwbl gan y wladwriaeth les.

Dwi wedi datgan fy mod gyda £😛 mewn cynilion ar ôl gwerthu fy nhŷ yng Nghaerdydd. Hwn oedd y broblem y tro diweddaf mi wnes i wneud cais. Gwrthodwyd eich ymholiadau personol mewn i'm materion eiddo a chynilion.

Dwi yn hysbys i chi fel dyn 56 oed a gafodd ddiagnosis o anhwylder dau begwn yn 2006 ag mi roeddwn yn derbyn budd-daliadau llawn tan 2013 oherwydd hyn.

Mi ges i drafodaeth gref gyda rhywun dros y ffon yn gweithio i DWP yn datgan "Os nad oeddwn yn fodlon cael tystysgrif salwch gan y meddyg, na faswn ni yn gymwys i unrhyw fudd-dal"

Dwi wedi cofrestru gyda Meddyg yn Aberystwyth ond dwi ddim am wastraffu ei amser o/hi yn gofyn am dystysgrifau salwch pan mae o yn ddigon hysbys i chi fy mod i wedi dioddef salwch meddwl hir oes sydd yn effeithio ar ba fath o waith a gymaint o waith dwi fodlon gwneud.

Cyn i mi ddod i gyfarfod i gael gwybod fy mod i ddim yn deilwng o unrhyw budddal o gwbl a bod rhaid i mi fyw ar gynilion tan i rheina cyrraedd eich trothwy, mi faswn yn ddiolchgar tasech chi yn gallu esbonio i mi sut mae eich cyfundrefn bresennol ddim yn torri hawliau dynol unigolion y Deyrnas Unedig.

Dwi wedi ffeindio allan neithiwr trwy'r Government Gateway fy mod wedi talu 31 o flynyddoedd o Yswiriant Gwladol mewn i'r system.

Os dwi yn mynd i gael fy nhrin yr un ffordd a ges i o blaen pan wnes i gais am Gredyd Cynhwysol rhwng Ionawr 2019 a Rhagfyr 2020 ble roedd bobol yn ffonio chi fyny ac yn amau chi o hawlio yn anghyfreithlon dwi ddim am symud ymlaen gyda'r cais.

Dwi wedi bod yn byw ar gynilion rhwng Mai 2021 a rŵan! 21 mis heb un rhyw gymorth gennych chi ag eich llywodraeth.

Mae sawl un yn marw neu yn cymryd bywydau ei hunan oherwydd y driniaeth maent yn cael gan yr adran gwaith a phensiynau.

Yr unig beth dwi eisiau gwybod ganddo’ch chi cyn i mi fynychu cyfarfod a mynd trwy'r rigmarol yma eto.

A ydw i (o'r wybodaeth sydd gyda chi gerbron) yn gymwys i unrhyw budddal o gwbl os gwelwch yn dda?

Dwi wedi datgan fy mod i ddim am gyflwyno tystysgrifau salwch gerbron na hefyd fyddai yn arwyddo un rhyw ddarn o bapur all peri i fy nghyflwr salwch gwaethygu.

Yr eiddoch yn gywir

David Williams

Darllen Pellach

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-snakes-and-ladders-of-mental-health.html

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2020/03/carers-pittance-universal-discredit.html

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2022/06/victorian-bastard-work-ethic.html