We are called up to Portsmouth and it's many a weary mile

[sovay]

I keep having to be reminded that poppies are for Memorial as well as Armistice Day, but as they are both effectively festivals of the underworld, I really should remember. Having been traveling in the last few days, I saw far too many flag-waving billboards exhorting to support the troops. The dead are always easier to take care of.

Comments

[kathmandu]

And the troops are mostly a long way away and not allowed to speak against their orders.

[sovay]

And the troops are mostly a long way away and not allowed to speak against their orders.

It is more difficult to give people what they need if they cannot tell you.

(I am also, inexorably, stuck remembering what happens when they do ask and still aren't given it.)

[choco_frosh]

:(

[selkie]

*hugs* It is a very good photo. Thank you. It's harder to make a poppy into jingoistic nonsense patriotism sauce.

[sovay]

It is a very good photo. Thank you. It's harder to make a poppy into jingoistic nonsense patriotism sauce.

The real thing is always more complicated.

*hugs*

[minoanmiss]

That's a beautiful photo of a complex flower, not a flattened paper symbol that got appropriated.

[sovay]

That's a beautiful photo of a complex flower, not a flattened paper symbol that got appropriated.

Thank you.

[asakiyume]

The center of this poppy looks like incense--also appropriate for remembering the dead.

[sovay]

The center of this poppy looks like incense--also appropriate for remembering the dead.

I like that.