24.7.10

Modern Times (turn off your TV and burn your newspapers)















Your Attention Please


The Polar DEW has just warned that
A nuclear rocket strike of
At least one thousand megatons
Has been launched by the enemy
Directly at our major cities.
This announcement will take
Two and a quarter minutes to make,
You therefore have a further
Eight and a quarter minutes
To comply with the shelter
Requirements published in the Civil
Defence Code - section Atomic Attack.
A specially shortened Mass
Will be broadcast at the end
Of this announcement -
Protestant and Jewish services
Will begin simultaneously -
Select your wavelength immediately
According to instructions
In the Defence Code. Do not
Take well-loved pets (including birds)
Into your shelter - they will consume
Fresh air. Leave the old and bed-
ridden, you can do nothing for them.
Remember to press the sealing
Switch when everyone is in
The shelter. Set the radiation
Aerial, turn on the geiger barometer.
Turn off your Television now.
Turn off your radio immediately
The Services end. At the same time
Secure explosion plugs in the ears
Of each member of your family. Take
Down your plasma flasks. Give your children
The pills marked one and two
In the C.D green container, then put
Them to bed. Do not break
The inside airlock seals until
The radiation All Clear shows
(Watch for the cuckoo in your
perspex panel), or your District
Touring Doctor rings your bell.
If before this, your air becomes
Exhousted or if any of your family
In critically injured, administer
The capsules marked 'Valley Forge'
(Red Pocket in No. 1 Survival Kit)
For painless death. (Catholics
Will have been instructed by their priests
What to do in this eventuality).
This announcement is ending. Our President
Has already given orders for
Massive retaliation - it will be
Decisive. Some of us may die.
Remember, statistically
It is not likely to be you.
All flags are flying fully dressed
On Government buildings - the sun is shining.
Death is the least we have to fear.
We are all in the hands of God,
Whatever happens happens by His Will.
Now go quickly to your shelters.


Peter Porter


Your Attention Please, The Scars, 1981

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Freaky dramatic pics. Third one down=best freaky. Second from last=best dramatic.

Looks like you barely made it to the shelter...in time?

Good work.

Ruela said...

Experimental stuff.


Hope so or hope don't need that... ;)

Aaron Held said...

Great post

Oilsforfun said...

Love 1st picture Ruela. It is brilliant.
Glad you survived but the consequencies must be horrific

Anonymous said...

Plug Terri Schiavo's corpse back into life support & turn up the sound of her rotting; burn Theocracy; scream is the new body politic; god is both CEO and consultant to capitalism.

Ruela said...

Thanx Aaron.

Ruela said...

CHM

my favorite too.

Ruela said...

Iryna Harpy


burn Theocracy and Bureaucracy...

Michelle Alexander said...

I am SO loving your imagery and words...cool stuff!

Ruela said...

Thank you Michelle!

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