The Slow-Motion Murder of Julian Assange and the Reck of Anthony Bourdain and Other Poems

By Bruce Hanna

Poems crafted with a love of life; funny, thought-stirring and relevant. A chorus-line of naked beggars dance for us, with a celebrity hanged in a hotel room and a witness to a war crime slowly murdered. Hope remains upstanding in a World of many downfalls, these poems sparkle with outrage and fierce compassion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bruce Hanna
• Release date: Aug 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215345177

Bruce Hanna

“I’m no writer. I actually don’t write. The stuff just comes out, like the insides of an insect clinging to the windscreen of a speeding vehicle.” – Bruce HannaAfter growing up among construction sites and factories of western Sydney, Australia, Bruce Hanna became a homeless outlaw, hunted by Federal, State and Army police due to his refusal to collaborate in the USA-led war against Vietnam. He was later granted amnesty under the Whitlam-Barnard Labor government.Hanna’s writing and cartoons appeared on fringes of the Australian press, including The Bulletin, Nation Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Tribune and the underground tabloid Paper TV. They may also be found in obscure collections of his poetry, along with Suicide Circus, an illustrated homage to the self-devastation of the human race, along with his PsychoJunk recordings beginning with Mad Dog on Crazy Street (1999).Hanna’s first novel Fatal Moments (published by A&R in 1987) caused Peter Bowler in Canberra Times to remark on a “delicious thread of dry humour running through the high drama” and “the sheer outrageous fecundity of Hanna’s imaginativeness.” Hanna reveals the World in spurts of liquid insight, and outrage etched into his writing by acidic humour, as reflected in Sentimental Traveller (2020) a compassion-fuelled narrative of cross-century travels. Some years ago, his e-books (Babu, Comedy of Turmoil and Scrapheap of Dreams) with Sentimental Traveller were made available free of charge, for educational purposes.

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THE SLOW-MOTION

MURDER OF JULIAN ASSANGE

and

THE RECK OF ANTHONY BOURDAIN

and other poems

by Bruce Hanna

2023

© the author – provided without charge

for educational purposes.

THE SLOW-MOTION MURDER OF JULIAN ASSANGE

(Overture to Stabbing Holes in Our Eyes with Lies)

I

My fellow Doomed Souls

in every nation on Earth,

Ask no questions. Make no fuss.

Hallelujah to ya. Isn’t it obvious?

The more darkness falls upon others,

the brighter everything is for us.

Let us flourish in our unrivalled greatness,

bathed in Superiority’s self-reflecting glow

of bigotry, naked-greed & happy hatred,

for the Slow-Motion Murder of Julian Assange

has been decreed, as demanded

by the inalienable grace

of history’s savage focus,

hocus-pocus & mass hypnosis,

and the bloodsuckers of democracy.

Just fuckin’ open up. Come