As-Salamu’alaykum everyone
This is a weblog in which I have place the draft material of a publication I am intending to make.
It is an addendum to the various versions of books in the series The Christmas Which Never Came, which is a set of small print run publications I am making of my own poetry and some essays. The essays usually level out somewhere between ten and twenty thousand words, and the poems facilitate making the essays more readable. However gradually I collected more poetry than the essay’s needed in accompaniment, and am finding a general preference for poetry since less words can express the same depth and complexity of idea and ideal. I also believe that where the poetry declines to detail the whole concept and all the innuendo around a concept, that the reality of my meaning is still being well read by who will well read the essays, and normally only those whom chose to seek to misinterpret the essays, are who can not extract meaning from the poetry as I intend to express.
The Addendum document that this weblog’s posts after this, are all a part of, is a few essays which contain the sorts of detail that need to be in essays. There is only a small contribution of poetry.
The story behind these essays is fully only my own immediate personal responses to the public environment of the City of Brisbane. Responses to public Art works and public lectures, and to my own observation, as a member of the public, of the inter-relationships between crime and the mainstream law-abiding community. It is potentially politically contraversial, but I genuinely pray and hope that your own responses to what I am attempting to portray, will not be that of a politician, or of reading this material only in its political context. I am writing about a social context, and these essays might well one day be edited into what belongs in a sociology type journal. The audience the essays are directed to is an academic audience primarily, but also the professional audience of those whom work with the social justice issues, and welfare, of persons unduly effected by crime.
My intention is to open our field of obervation of what other social functions are facilitating crime, and which social functions can be preventative of crime.
Within that frame of reference, I might add that there could be a special interest in what I have to say among women (and men) whom have worked in the prostitution industry, but whom are also well educated. I believe that the sex workers industry can be at the forefront of preventing the social problems which my essays illustrate; and where prostitutes are not already in that role, is when they have been too far abused by criminals, or themselves have some other, undisclosed criminal intentions. I will openly assert here that the prostitutes whom have been enabled by organised crime, to work with the police, are certainly not those persons who are motivated to work towards police being able to prevent crime in their industry.
The different posts in the weblog are each a section of the short publication Addendum in its unedited form. The sequencing of the posts is almost the same as it is in the paper copy, and where it is not the same, that is mentioned, so as to enable readers to read it in the sequence it was written to be read in.
With a quick apology for the places where the wordpress software sometimes randomly re-organised the return key function in word software, please tolerate the lack of paragraphing until I have time to re-insert all the paragraph breaks. There are only a few poems that happened to, and each line has a capital in the first word, to discern the punctuation for reading mitre by.
That is all I have to say here, thanks for reading.
Alaykumu’as-Salam from Curaezipirid
