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Peter J. King

@rock-rex.bsky.social

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Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.

https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king

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@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:06 PM

Lucia would have been very excited.

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:28 PM

Thank you!

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:37 AM

And your grounds for that claim? Are you saying that a one-state solution means that Israel would cease to exist? That would be a peculiar position to adopt. Israel would continue to exist, but without the racist underpinning.

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:21 AM

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:21 AM

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Again, one real stinker (over 11,500 km and nearly two centuries out), yet I still got a plus score for it!

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:08 AM

WhichYear 10/11/26 4824 pts (top 1%) 2.0 avg. years off 6️⃣ 🎯 🎯 4️⃣ 🎯

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:04 AM

Beat It! I rocked DISCOVR: 1/36

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:02 AM

So far as I can discover, that seems to be excellent news. Is that right?

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:59 AM

The last public execution in the U.K. was in 1868. I find it astonishing that it was still happening in the U.S. sixty-eight years later - so this is especially appalling to me.

@groomb.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 7:47 AMReposted by @rock-rex.bsky.social

Starry Night, painting by Spennymoor-born Norman Cornish (1919-2014). He was a coal miner for 33 years.

@pete-davies.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:33 AMReposted by @rock-rex.bsky.social

A rare sighting in British media. An opinion piece backing the "Zionism is racism" position and arguing that Polanski's mistake was not coming out to support it. Good work, Martin Shipton!

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:51 AM

I'll have to go through the ones I still have, and try to work it out by a process of elimination!

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:44 AM

Yes, I think I had it on an album of theirs which I lent and never got back. Perhaps the most surprising recording is this one...

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:39 AM

"Post Mortem".

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When it is hauled – dissolving, hard to see
as what was once a human being –
out of the winter lake,
they gape in silence:
puffs of vapour stand for voices.

Brought to shore, it lies upon a canvas sheet;
the brightly painted rowing boat
is dragged up on the freezing mud,
and those with jobs to do leave in relief.
The rest look anywhere but at their dripping catch,
and wait until the surgeon comes
to certify the thing is dead.

It’s whisked away,
laid out upon a table, stainless steel —
and then the slicing and the sawing,
and the grim performance
of the modern haruspectic rite
that seeks for omens, not of things to come,
but of the past.Here, trapped within the folds of grey,
a bullet’s found, striations mapped;
upon the wrists and ankles, barely visible,
abrasion marks.
The organs bottled, tissues laid on slides,
and dental work recorded...
finally the closing, crudely stitched.
The corpse is slid into a chilly drawer,
the table’s sluiced,
and there’s just time for sandwiches and tea
before the next one’s wheeled along.

Examining the entrails, though, brings no success;
the days drag past, then weeks,
and after months the clockwork of investigation
slows, winds down, and other cases
take its place.
                              The human jetsam – missing
certain bits and pieces – is reduced
 to smoke and ash, unmourned, unmarked.
From water into air, then fire,
and finally it’s laid in earth.



published in Oatleaf Poetry Magazine, June 2025
(nominated for Pushcart Prize)
@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:16 AM

From the 1933 song with lyrics by Benjamin Hapgood Burt.

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:54 PM

Don't forget all his lies.

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:41 PM

That's a view often expressed by those of a certain political persuasion, but the legal position seems to be otherwise - and the moral position is quite clearly otherwise.

@defendourjuries.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:59 PMReposted by @rock-rex.bsky.social

BREAKING

Professor Peter Hallward has just been arrested on the National March for Palestine for holding a banner with a factually accurate legal statement on it.

“In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action”

Help end the absurdity: www.wedonotcomply.org

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:36 PM

The problem is that that doesn't make sense. If we're having the illusion, that in itself is a temporal process. In order for time to be illusory, we'd have to posit a sort of meta-time, and so on ad infinitum.

@rock-rex.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:12 PM

"looose"

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