Huge "Scheherazade" Painting & Poem by Gideon Polya: "One Day in the Life of Barack Obama"

Last year I published on Bellaciao a very carefully researched and documented quantitative analysis of the mass murder of Muslim civilians, and notably of children, by the US Alliance in the Occupied Territories of the American Empire under Barack Obama and entitled “Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?ar... . This article comes up as #1 out of about 8,000 hits on a Google Search for the famous anti-war chant “Hey. Hey . USA, how many kids did you kill today?”

Below is a poem entitled “One Day in the Life of Barack Obama“ by Gideon Polya, written on a Melbourne train on his way to a Climate Action Conference (Saturday 6 February 2010). The poem marks the occasions of President Barack Hussein Obama’s first 12 months in office and his forthcoming visit to his loyal ally in the cowardly Bush-Obama War on Asian Women and Children, racist, genocidal, pro-war, war criminal, pro-coal, climate criminal, pro-Zionist Apartheid Australia.

One Day in the Life of Barack Obama

Hey, hey, USA,

How many kids did you kill today?

Deliciously dreaming, half awake, half asleep,

Slowly he stretches and ventures a peep.

Marbled ablutions, dental spit,

Even an emperor has to shit.

Yes suh, no suh, a dusky maid

Serves bacon, eggs and marmalade.

Versaci-clad, elegant, the yes we can King

Emerges with flunkies with hand grips and spring.

Between limousine comforts arises the doubt

That it’s sure getting hotter for the Man with no clout.

Hard men, worse women, and power of state

Consign billions to mayhem and hunger, called Fate.

Feasts, entertainments, beauty and swain,

Thence ruling the World yields to slumber again.

Hey, hey, USA,

How many kids did you kill today?

Answer: 1,000.

Gideon Polya, 6 February 2010.

This poem is well illustrated by Gideon Polya’s huge figurative abstract expressionist painting entitled "Scheherazade" (1.3 x 2.9 metres): http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideon.... For discussion of this painting see "Scheherazade": http://sites.google.com/site/artfor....

Words having evidently failed, Gideon Polya has painted a big series of huge, pro-Humanity paintings that can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideon... (for discussion see ""Art for Peace, Planet , Mother and Child": http://sites.google.com/site/artfor... ).

Many of these paintings have a "One Day" narrative theme, notably "One Day Pathétique" (see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideon...) that uses female forms (figurative abstract expressionism) to provide a "One Day" interpretation of Pyotr Tchaikovski’s last symphony, Symphony Number 6, the so-called Pathétique (for discussion see "One Day Pathétique": http://sites.google.com/site/artfor... ).