On War, Capital and Taxation

A Life After an Event…

Iqbal Athas, the reputed military analyst, in his Situation Report published weekly in the Sunday Times, the newspaper of the commercial bourgeoisie, states that the dawn of 2009 will usher Sri Lanka into a new era, though what it portends exactly remains unclear for him, while the Sri Lankan Army is suffering from bad weather, a "mortar monsoon" bestowed upon them by the Tigers.

On the 18th December 2008, His Excellency the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, said, "We need money to develop the country as well as to protect the country from terrorism. As a government our revenue comes from taxes. No one who loves the country should block taxes and prevent the country from being protected".

He said: "We should not send the wrong signals to the soldiers in the battle field; we should show them that we are with them".

- Daily Mirror, 19 December 2008

The State does not use the tax money sapped from the workers to venture in war; but rather, it's the system of public credit, i.e., of national debts, which is brokered to cover the multitude of expenditures, Rupees one hundred and seventy seven billion for 2009 that renders themselves paramount in a process of systematic slaughter.

The bulk of the Ceylon's State liabilities are composed of Rupee loans1, the sources of which, are, the domestic lenders. This means that the loans are obtained through local sources. And most importantly... not every Sri Lankan soul is blessed with such money required to become a lender to such a vast machinery as the State.

As with the stroke of an enchanter’s wand", public debt, "endows barren money with the power of breeding and thus turns it into capital, without the necessity of its exposing itself to the troubles and risks inseparable from its employment in industry or even in usury. ...the national debt has given rise to joint-stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agitate, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy."2

Therefore it is clear that investment in war is an impossible measure for the masses to execute. It is the commercial and merchant class of Ceylon who with utmost enthusiasm and grace, invest in the State's war expenditure by providing it with domestic loans and thereby become rich by appropriation of the interest,

"As the national debt finds its support in the public revenue, which must cover the yearly payments for interest, the modern system of taxation was the necessary complement of the system of national loans. The loans enable the government to meet extraordinary expenses, without the tax-payers feeling it immediately, but they necessitate, as a consequence, increased taxes. On the other hand, the raising of taxation caused by the accumulation of debts contracted one after another compels the government always to have recourse to new loans for new extraordinary expenses. Modern fiscality, whose pivot is formed by taxes on the most necessary means of subsistence (thereby increasing their price), thus contains within itself the germ of automatic progression. Over-taxation is not an incident, but rather a principle."3

It is this interest of the national debt that is being compensated by the State on behalf of the lenders by forcing its public to save, that is, by taxing the worker to the core. The 189% tax on oil that was readjusted by the Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva is a necessary condition to fill the coffers of the lenders. Therefore, the more the State is in debt the more the class of financial aristocrats that infest the surface of Ceylon, is so much blessed with riches in great quantities. Yet, on the 18th December 2008, His Excellency the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 'the soldier outside the battlefield', said, "We need the money to develop the country as well as to protect the country from terrorism. As a government our revenue comes from taxes. No one who loves the country should block taxes and prevent the country from being protected".

During the eve of Christmas, it was reported through local media that the clashes in the Western and Southern borders of Killinochchi and North of Mullathivu, Muhamalai and Paranthan, had laid low nearly few thousand national heroes from both sides, as dead as doornails lying upon the lifeless skin of their motherland. And the Ceylonese public, trembling like a true liberal, hides itself as best he could beside the private roads, crescents, and avenues and keep on counting the dead that are so neatly lying on the ground like railway sleepers... Counting makes it easier. Systemizing the assaults makes them easier to deal with. More remote. .

But yet, the nation is not breathing its last sighs… No one is shrieking to hasten the death of war… the children of the Christ are demanding for war holidays during the season, a truce for the eve of Christmas and the New Year while the villages burn, burnt by the heroes of both sides in total accordance with Humanitarian Law.. war must and shall survive… that is the Serpent's venom which flows in the veins of the Ceylonese and guides them towards the gates of heaven. The air is growing darker still, yet the war is shining upon the creatures of decency... and indecency, the Province Western is blessed with all the riches that the liberation war has to offer. The bank coffers are deluging with the wealth, what the rightful investments in war has to offer. "Hence, as a necessary consequence, the modern doctrine that a nation becomes the richer the more deeply it is in" war and "debt."4

The State uses its constitutional right to plunder the whole 'National' population through taxation, that is by forcing the latter, to save and invest their wages, and transfer this 'legal black money', into the hands of a few 'National' usurers; "The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt."5

The State should posses a method of surplus value extraction, independent of its spheres of investments, because the investments made by the State using the borrowed money are incapable of surplus value generation to pay off the interest of the indebted nation. Thus, the investments made by the State are realized as unproductive in every aspect, and therefore, rendered incapable of covering the yearly payments of interest, which, the 'middlemen between the government and the nation', the State-creditors demand. The method of surplus extraction that functions independently of the government's speres of investment is coercing of the workers to save their salaries and wages; namely, this method is none other than Taxation.

A Brief Note on the Nature of Ceylon's Labour Force

The economically dominant strata who perpetuates its sway over the public is reproducing its limits by exploiting the workforce with a magnificent level of unproductiveness, because their ventures only demand tea pluckers who pluck the budding tea leaves with two little fingers since the one hundred and fifty years that came to pass following the birth of the plantations in the late 1870's in Ceylon; they only demand garment girls, housemaids to export into the middle east, waiters/waitresses for tourist hotels; education is what is least needed to execute the latter.

The sectors mentioned above which are the most dominant spheres of investment in Sri Lanka are cursed with economic stagnancy, devoid of any development in the production process by incurring modern machinery, and thereby never it reduces the lot of necessary labour and increase surplus labour, and thereby renders the increase of real as well as nominal wages of the workforce an impossible errand. Therefore it is impossible to develop the living conditions of the workforce that is engaged in these sectors.

The pious wish of the dominant economic class of Sri Lanka is the production of wealth without production itself... therefore rendering the process of acquiring continuous development of ideas, knowledge and techniques superfluous for the domestic workforce; unemployment is the necessary condition, the nurtured child of the existing merchant capitalist economy, it is the 'development of underdevelopment', 5 upon the surface of the Pearl in the Indian Ocean.

Once Again on the Imperialist Nature of the Elam War IV

The economic implications of the Fourth Elam War, bears genuine characteristics of an Imperialist war. The saturation of the spheres of investments in the South, forces the State creditors, to search for new and fresh markets… spheres where the market forces have not yet reached its zenith and therefore they appear to be young and supple with no giant monopolies obstructing the division of the market among themselves. And therefore, ousting competition and possesses the potential to provide our casino class a plenty of opportunities to spread underdevelopment throughout the regions of North and East.

The Southern home market is on the verge of saturation and therefore capital is no longer finding ample investment, as a result an impending solvency crisis in the banking sector of Ceylon is inevitable. It is this sudden demand for new markets from our unproductive investors: bankocrats, hotel owners, supermarket chains, car sales, insurance companies, casinos, and various other service providers who have recommended the adoption of Imperialism, waged upon the North and East as the policy and practice of the Ceylon's government. The policy of the State is the policy of its lenders. They prioritize Imperialism to use public resources of the nation to find profitable employment of the capital which they privately own, otherwise the entire hoard of money would render superfluous. They shall attempt to sell insurance packages to the bullet struck refugees and shall try to promote them to consume through their supermarket chains and construct tourist hotels which would absorb the North East youth as mere waiters and waitresses.


Monopoly


It was reported in the local media that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) sells gas to Laughs Gas for Rupees four hundred and sixty five a cylinder, which they resell for rupees thousand seven hundred keeping a profit margin of Rs. 1235. That is the rate of profit of Laughs Gas is nearly three hundred per cent! On the 31st December 2008, rupees two hundred and seventy six was reduced from the price of a Laughs Gas cylinder by the government as the provincial elections are scheduled to be held in January. This means, that the market that supplies the essential means of subsistence is heavily monopolized and monopoly has replaced free competition. Thus, the commanding position which they hold over the entire market sphere allows them to control and decide the prices of goods and services they supply. By keeping prices high, the monopolies accelerate their margin of profit, and cut down on production to face the falling demand of the ordinary consumers caused by the rise in prices, therefore acquiring profits through sheer unproductive means, severing the umbilical chord that joins productivity and profitability, a temporary tendency therefore arises for the general rate of profit of the economy to rise, which is the economic essence of Imperialism, or monopoly-capitalism. Whereas in the past, in the epoch of free competition, the competition caused a sharp drop in the prices.

References:

1. See the Monthly Bulletin, May 2008, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, for statistics
2. Marx. K, Capital Vol. I
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. De Silva. S. B. D, The Political Economy of Underdevelopment

For you it is with pride

Vacancies are there for Juki machine operators…
Vacancies are there for miss Sri Lanka 2008 pageant
Vacancies are there for the Middle East servants
Vacancies are there if you are the degree completed

During seasons... yes the vacancies are there,
for Parliament Members
and vacancies are there for the well educated
Vacancies are there if you are CIMA completed
Vacancies are there my beloved…
for suicide carders

From tongues to belly buttons,
there’s the demand for body pierces
Pierce them while you are steady and free of tweezers
Not only when you are in the beauty parlor
They pierced those bones…
of Jesus Christ my beloved
and laid him to waste in the Church of body piercing paupers

Pierce them bodies with bullets and human rights
Pierce them flesh if they are found guilty
of love undying…
Play them drums like guitar ‘n fingers
and pierce them heart with words my dearest
Pierce them not only when you are inside the beauty parlor

Vacancies are there if you are good with drug dealers
Vacancies are there if you want to become God’s apostle
Vacancies are there, my holiest my dearest…
you always wanted to become, that Buddha’s disciple

Lets go on a picnic shall we…between those Forward Defense Lines
How about a party in between…? After all they are just two lines…

Have you passed G.C.E o levels…?
if not never you should mind
Still under 16..?
Yes
That would be fine
We need some broilers… 50, 000 of them to fill not a few bunkers
and bodies to feed the Raymond’s furniture, newly completed
One Sri Lanka my love...
but my handsome little soldier
Your culture is bad, how agricultural you are, the potato grower
No this vacancy is not mine
For you it is with pride

‘A Short Story’ – Fetishism of War in Neo Ceylon

“Right is on the side of might.
Legal phrases are on the side of impotence.” 1

Rays of fire, glow on thick red facades… like a ruby in Adam’s ale placed on the plinth of damned Earth… Sun sends its tears with mixed feelings, a split in the sky paves its way on to the fourth world; them tears mingle with meadows of warm red, its tears dance above them dark crimson flowing so slowly on the long standing high ways of Colombo, joining its way in the neighborhood of Kandy. It was broadcasted live as well as edited, via print and electronic drawings. This is territorial blood which is spilling not that of any species. Media paints its territorial images on the Sinhalese heads. Blood of the Northern Tamils are out on a limb; nor do they flow on the streets of Colombo. For the Sinhalese, neither were they spilled in Killinochchi by the Sinhalese State murdering twenty nine people, few days before the balancing effect triggered in Colombo and Kandy, and buried its cause on the television sets of Southern mass…

Four months above we were stressing nothing but on this single phrase written nearly a century ago by a revolutionary, shot to death by the German State. In 1915 she said, ‘When my neighbor’s home burns, my own is in danger…’2 Are we not feeding on our own limbs, drawing blood with best of intentions…? Is it true that the way to Hell is paved with nothing but good intentions…?3 Yes or No..? Upon this plain inquiry, the great pearl of the Indian Ocean shall split its crust in to two halves which are nothing but hostile to the other. We have to remind what we had to say few months ago and how those positions have intensified themselves on the Sri Lankan political veneer with some more unforeseen changes.

We wrote: ‘The political solution to the conflict has walked hand in hand from the military barracks, and resided on the banks of the public life. The cause of this is non other than this; the Southern petty-bourgeois and the peasantry have become ‘the outer protective shell’ of the Sinhalese State, therefore they have become a politico-ideological force superseding its epicenter of political will, the state. In North, the oppressed mass has no milder bearings, it equals itself with the LTTE’s regime. This short phase of infinite murder means that politics of war has withdrawn itself from the battlefield between the defense lines of the Government Forces and the LTTE, and deposited itself in the more luxurious political accounts of the general public. The final solution will be written with public’s blood, on the streets and highways of South and on the jungle roads of the North.’3 The number of Government soldiers or the LTTE carders nor the amount of civilians murdered in the North and East in the midst of fierce battle shall in any way alter or affect the final solution of the conflict nor it shall bring about any general political changes in the country. But the murder of the non-soldiers, i.e. the systematic murder of the civilians in the South by the LTTE shall lead to a major political transformation which is fundamentally twofold (the particular incidents as such, bear the power to dismantle and about ship the general whole);

1. It shall ultimately decide the general militaristic strategy implemented by both sides. The public sphere have to be more militaristically concentrated; it requires further planning, shifts in resources –soldiers and ammunition- and absolute increases in the military spending. Moreover this whole set up shall give the military an autonomous existence, an absolute power over and above everything that formerly existed over and above the latter. The cabinet approval for the establishment of six separate bodies to monitor and implement military strategies for the purpose of maintaining public security is a material manifestation of this argument.

2. It shall speed up the process of settling in to a final solution for the conflict as more and more civilians are murdered in South. Therefore the frequency of the murder of the civilians of the South, rather than the soldiers, and the North and East civilians themselves, is directly proportional with the hastening of the political settlements. This notion reveals us two further important points.

First, that no matter how brutal these attacks may appear to the public, these attacks resemble a positive drive towards an end, if only they are focused upon the masses of the Western Province (who fundamentally occupy a parasitic existence in relation with other more rural provinces) and the masses dwelling in the remaining cities of the country (e.g.: Kandy, Galle, Kalutara etc) who have become the outer protective shell of the State, the idea is to destroy in to sand this exact shell.

Second, the irrelevant nature of death of a soldier, politically as well as militaristically, reveals the nature of the function bestowed by the civil society to the children in arms. They are the direct opposite of civilization, the machines mutilated out of man flesh to guard the same civilization who begot them with pride, from whose bowels they see the light of day; the night has certainly conquered the sun with its thick immovable shadow, appear as if it is sown on to their mechanic flesh with threads of steal, the chains are here to stay, till the end. In to the pale day light we see. War is not perceived by the civil society as a continuation and an extension of a certain form of a social relationship with a definite ideological content, but, it is absorbed as an object existing outside them, therefore as a thing which can be demolished if certain objects are demolished forever, the latter objects are analogues with the members of the LTTE, therefore war is perceived as a thing sitting out side them which is formed by the integration of thousands of separate pest-like objects. Never they perceive that social relationships which invariably possess a definite form with a specific ideological content can not be destroyed by means of war unless they become obsolete in relation to the general whole. This ‘false consciousness’ we would call the Fetishism of war in Ceylon. This fact can be clearly seen by the nature of media coverage given to the war… where the television viewers are transformed in to an audience who are made to enjoy the action and all the thrills of war nor less than an action movie; all this make us remind the film ‘Thrill Seekers’ (telecasted more than twice on ETV) where agents from the future are sent in to the past to execute specific large scale human disasters, which are then broadcasted live for the audience sitting in front of television sets in the realm of the future, the audience of the future spend their wealth to watch the men of the past slain in herds.

The Epilogue of the East – February, 1948 and May ‘08

The declaration of independence and sovereignty of Ceylon in 1948 by the British colonizers and the restoration of freedom and democracy in the Eastern province by the Government of Sri Lanka in May 2008 resemble developments as well as analogies when the two incidents are measured while placing them in the same dimension.

The declaration of independence in 1948 contains two main aspects which would be worth mentioning on this regard.

a. the transformation of the colonial state, Ceylon, in to a neo-colony which is politically as well as economically dependent on the metropolitan center of the capitalist system; the investment patterns and political measures implemented in the dependent country is largely dominated by the interests and motives of the metropolitan economy.

b. the political power of Ceylon was bestowed to the comprador bourgeois class who were perfect class allies of the metropolitan center. By the time of the declaration of the independence in 1948 various mass movements were mobilized mostly by the leftists politicians and trade unions against the entire apparatus of the declaration of independence and there was a state of political unrest during that period in Ceylon. But the absenteeism of an armed insurrection against the system of rule made it possible to saturate the ill political and economic nuances in to the public sphere without much resistance by the masses and therefore a general settlement over the matter was made.

We perceive the restoration of freedom and democracy in the Eastern province in comparison with the above two points respectively.

a. Democracy and freedom to the East is quite analogues with the declaration of the independence by the British colonizers to the Ceylon. In the same way that transformed the colonial state of Ceylon in to a mere neocolonial atoll, the Sri Lankan Government shall ‘reorganize’ the system of control to a such a degree that the Eastern administration is politically as well as economically dependent on the Sinhala Government. Therefore there is an overall overlapping of the point a. of the former and the point a. of the latter.

b. the political power of the East is not bestowed to a comprador bourgeois class as such it was done in 1948 by the British, but is dealt out among three major armed factions; the break away faction of the LTTE, the Jihad movement of the Muslims and the Sinhalese Government. Therefore this is a further development of the situation which existed in 1948; a spiral movement of the proceedings of power is evident herewith. The antagonistic relationship which is evident in the East, between the Muslims and the Eastern Tamils and between the latter two factions and the Sinhalese state and also a possible re-intervention of the LTTE among the ranks of the Eastern shell with the aid of Muslim Jihad movement and the breakaway party of the LTTE shall recreate the Eastern soil in to a state of political unsavory. The East will turn out to be a major military blockade far more extensive than when it was under the control of the LTTE.

The fact that the LTTE is having firm links with the Muslim armed movement in the East is unmistakable; the TNA parliamentarian who was murdered few months ago in Mannar was replaced by a Muslim representative, a clear sign of the political and further military unification with the Muslim armed movement despite the treacherous incidents which took place in the early 1990’s between the two races. Further more, the LTTE shall not enter in to a peace deal with the Southern Government unless 2002 Memorandum of Understanding is re-initiated, which is impossible on behalf of the government since it would mean the evacuation of its armed forces from the North as well as from the East. Therefore on LTTE’s behalf, they made a serious error in 2005 November presidential elections when they chose to block the votes of the North East Tamils, which led the way to the SLFP to overthrow the rule of the United National Party and wage a devastating war against the North East. The LTTE have partially dug their own grave by this severe mistake, they did not foresee nor did they predict that an iron military fist led by Ghothabhaya and Basil Rajapakse is following behind the path of the SLFP.

A Possible Military Coup in the South

In January 2008 we wrote: ‘If the Neoliberal state is facing the general period of declining capitalism and therefore grave economic crises, then what might replace it? What did the government and no less the Bush administration do when they faced the seven signs of Neoliberal chronic economic imbalances?

1. uncontrollable internal budgetary deficits
2. a balance of payment crisis
3. rapid currency depreciation
4. unstable valuation of internal assets
5. rising inflation
6. rising unemployment with falling wages
7. capital flight5

They stepped its gear in to the ‘war on terrorism’, the rise of militaristic means to handle chronic economic crises, in other words it is the emphasis on ‘Religious-Nationalism’ to justify and provoke public support on military acquisitions. This militarization of the public sphere has much to do with asserting domestic control over much divided body of politic. Fear and insecurity were all too easily and in this case successfully manipulated for the construction of power’6.

The current proceedings of Neo-Ceylon have extended its reach than we have observed nearly half a year ago; it is on the verge of developing itself unto its absolute phase. The signs are rearranged in a clear chain on this Great Chinese Wall with no difficulty in grasping the impending sediment. Yet the question which triggers in our mind is ‘are we prepared enough to bring them walls of steel unto the depths of the metal ore..?

What do we comprehend by witnessing journalists being brutalised and hacked to death each hour…? What do we interpret when Poddala Jayantha and Sanath Balasooriya the two journalists who are leaders in the trade union movement of the media workers were verbally threatened by the Defense Secretary, the loyal brother to his Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapakse at his official premise..? What do we perceive when even the protests organized by the major opposition parties the United National Party and the Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna against the rising economic crisis and State led corruption being stroked off with metal sticks and batons by the police and the under world carder (although we know that latter two parties are no more than the false representatives of mere merchants and the petty middle strata in that order.)…? The state is chopping the limbs and lengthy tongues of each and everything which bars its path to retain its supreme power, over and everything on this polluted soil. It is using non other than that sword which is fixed on to the palm of the grand lion…

We are fervent to tell you that the present government under the leadership of the Defense Secretary Ghothabhaya Rajapakse is heading full speed towards a military coup if the political and economic unrest intensifies… What shall be the ultimate result of this coming..? The full scale saturation and absorption of the main opposition in to the ranks of the military government is unmistakably presupposed. The saturation process will come about as armed forces will constantly be preoccupied on the opposition whenever they make sound the alarm bell and the absorption process will be carried out by sucking up members of the opposition in to the ranks of the government… a perfect harmony of the opposites, a functioning unity of absorption and saturation shall be witnessed in the near future.

The most perfect example and the correct political path was given to the revolutionary movement all over the world by the Maoists comrades of Nepal. The positive aspect of this impending military coup by the government is that it shall show the masses the futility of the bourgeois opposition itself and shall paint the only viable path, the correct path towards the liberation of the down trodden humans and invariably the rest of the people as well, is non other than the waging of the armed struggle; and yes ‘a course of true love, never did run smooth…’7. ‘The CPN(Maoist) launched armed struggle on February 13, 1996, in opposition to comrades who urged that the time was not right, "objective" conditions did not exist, and that the electoral path should be pursued. But the leadership insisted that only by making a revolutionary break with pre-existing legality could the ordinary people learn their own strength. In the ten years of People's War a great number of young people of both sexes and all communities, including the most downtrodden, have made themselves into the seeds of the new civilization. Before the oppressed could even imagine defeating the regime in a free election it would be necessary to learn how to defeat its defense in armed struggle.8’

Note: A separate work shall be completed soon, focusing entirely on the specific form of the economic crisis experienced by the country.

References:

1. Marx. K, Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels Collected Works Volume 8. p?
2. Luxemburg .R, The Junius Pamphlet – The Crisis in the German Social Democracy. Third Sri Lankan Edition. pp 64
3. Marx. K, Capital Volume 1. p 105?
4. Southern Star Front (SSF), February – National Suicide in the South and North
5. Harvey. David, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. p?
6. SSF, January, The Darfur in the Indian Ocean
7. Quoted by Marx, in Grundrisse. p?
8. Nepal's Revolution: Armed Struggle Made Free and Fair Elections Possibleby Analytical Monthly Review 16/04/08

Fear of Love

Have you ever met Love under your own steam,
probably somewhere around the Western Province..?
Did you see her wander all alone in the Colombo District..?
I heard she got in to a bus from the Northern hemisphere
May be she is sitting right next to you,
on this bus, no matter where it’s heading
Hold her hand and whisper to her ears… when everything is silent like when no man is in tears
Never leave her alone with the tyrants they roam in this Province of fear

Love, she is an angel sent by God
Trying to send as many of us
In to the All Mighty’s arms
She is in love with the Province Western
Wanting to get married with, on the discussion table
The Ministry of Defense utters in fear
Love, she is wearing a suicider’s gears
Love, she is wearing C4 around her belly full of tears

We shiver in panic and play the dance of horror
Love, she will make flesh with C4 fire
Flesh is the uniform of legalized fear

They say love is a sacrifice, so she has sacrificed her fears
So Love she makes love in buses
Trying so hard to release us from our primal fear
Strip us naked from this official flesh we fear
Flesh is the Chinese Wall that keeps us aloof
from the words spoken with her

They say love is a sacrifice, so she has sacrificed her fears
So Love, she makes love in buses
Trying so hard to release us from our fear
Strip us naked from this official flesh we fear
With the innocent wish of meeting us in heaven
So then we shall speak to her with no whims of horror

Why bother with all these check points my dear..?
Let her make love with the vagabonds in fear
Let her liberate this mass throttling in terror

She will blow us straight in to the heavens
There we can nicely talk with her, with each other,
In heaven, there is no world’s fourth wonder

Get in to a bus from the Pettah station
Choose your own route how about 137
Make that wish come on ring it inside your head, “I shall meet her inside this beautiful bus like train”
The cogwheels might spin without the metal chains

The Farm

Out of this coma

Will you walk me with you my precious…?
Forgive me not, if you knows not how to murder false innocence
There is a place in them hearts
They breathe no green winds
They rain in Liquid Petroleum to replace the olive winds...
And why not my love…..?
Ain’t it so soft like a light blue stream…?
blind man never dares the poltergeist beings

Do you know,
the name of true love…?
Do you hear them DJs…
How they play it with tombs
and vowels hung from above…..?

So have you heard
the name of true love….?
The great old Bob Dylan sang the wildest old song
The answer he sang is ‘blowing in them winds’
But the answer my friend is not blowing in the wind

So did you find the name of true love…?
Here it is carved… on a shining Mercedes Benz, brand new and warm
And when you are down with your sleeves no one to hear you listen…
drowning in your backyard shores
porn... isn't it your religion and correct me if I’m wrong... you are wrong…

‘A drowning man is not troubled by rain’
Love of my name… is chaste insane
The deserts they ride on the cold glacier winds
Can three mighty banks…
Keep a river from drowning its own water streams……?

So the Americans they make the canoes of Dollar debt,
to keep us safe from the canoes of Dollar debt
They pull down the rope, to land on the moon with ease
Shall we fertilize its soil and start a newborns farm the great right-wing deal….?

Democracy for the Earth
so never them frogs, jump backwards when they are big….
war against war they silently scream….
Seek for W.M.Ds where the children merrily sleep, on rainbows with green horses, dancing over the seas…
And yes we are the empty sacks… that can not stand up on its rotten feet

Speak to me Mother…

Oh mom my sweet dear mom
Will you turn your ear to your baby’s little song….?
He is about to sing you sweet…, a little too long

Oh mother my mother my pretty looking mother
Who stamped you that name….?
What name…? Your name…
A deaf parrot would suit your game

Remember the days we walked together
You held my hand on the A9 path of fear
There were no hills upon that moon my dear
So the dam broke up so many years too sooner

Sri Lanka, you my mother, virgins we know never bear no children
So do you go to my fathersss’ lands…? Do they think of me when they can….?
Is it more bigger than my motherland…?
Mother my mother speak to me now when you can…
All the men were fond of your lusty curves…?
Tell me now…
Did they stimulate you inside the bunker caves…. and seduced your mind with check points and army caves….?
And did they all use Viagra, before you taste a slice of Adam’s apple….?
And didn’t you meet Eve as a precautionary measure …?
Sri Lanka my mother you are my landowner… Tell me now my DNA ladder …
Tell me now because I have the map of heaven and no they have no sewers...

Do they pay you enough for this burning summer…?
My mother are you sold out for a few dollars…?
Awurudu and Vesak fuel the engine more higher
Aren’t you sold out for a few more dollars…?

Oh mother my mother, my landlady cum mother, why are your lullabies sound so vulgar….?
Twenty million bastards you have thrown out of your caring slither
You lease them your minefields in those backyards for sure
Your home guards do the rest yes for sure

Allow me to draw your first blood my mother
Sri Lanka are you a masochist my mother…?
Lie down on this couch, don’t be afraid it floats on water
No visitor is allowed to see you answer

So tell me now my holiest mother…

Aren’t we the babies pouring out of those fathers’ sewers…?