*Thanks, Clicky… /lights up and smokes… Leggy did a lovely job with the cover. I wonder where he got the skulls from…*
*Ah, government-like. Gotcha… /flicks ash…*
Howdy, Dear Reader!
As you can see, the latest volume of the Underdog Anthology is now available to buy. It’s only available as a Kindle book at the moment, but the paperback will follow shortly. The cost of the Kindle book is only 79p, which works out at less than 10p a tale, and that’s throwing the Afterword in for free! I draw this to your attention, Dear Reader, as it seems to be a hell of a bargain, and something you may well want to take advantage of 😉
*Well, yeah, the stories in it are pretty dark, Clicky, but nothing like real life, right now. Seriously, have you seen who the UK government and mainstream media are fervently supporting in Ukraine?*
*/drags… It’s utterly shameful…*
As a further enticement to purchasing a copy of UAXX, Dear Reader, the Afterword is reproduced in full below… I did say it’s for free 😉
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Afterword
by Roo B. Doo
Welcome, Dear Reader, to the Afterword of this here Underdog Anthology. Not sure if you’ve realised but this volume bears the sign of the double-cross. Watch out! How we’ve managed to get to number XX I’ll never know 😉
A double-cross is an ‘act of treachery’. In 1941, MI5 set up a military counter espionage unit called The Twenty Committee. The naming of this unit clearly linked the double crosses of the Roman numerals for twenty (XX) with one of the unit’s aims, which was to ‘double cross’ Germany by coercing German spies to become English double agents. In April XX-XX, the UK’s chief of the defence staff General Sir Nick Carter revealed the secretive 77th Brigade of the British Army was involved in countering coronavirus misinformation online. A double dose of double-cross. Yikes to be on the end of that!
There is also a double-cross in ‘vaxx’ which, sadly to say, people are continuing to discover is entirely apt.
How about a sing-song, Dear Reader, to cheer ourselves up? As is traditional on this dead poets page, the lyrics of a poem or song are carved up, mangled and mutilated to fit a current thing. This time, to add a little piquancy, only one of the songwriters, Kelly Gordon, is dead. Dean Kay is alive and thriving, according to Wikipedia, which makes this a dead but alive offering.
The most famous version of this song is by Frank Sinatra and it’s a belter. He’s definitely dead but, in life, had a reputation for hanging out with Mafia types and, it is said, the famous singer/movie superstar character, Johnny Fontane, in The Godfather was based on Frank Sinatra. That resulted in a bed full of horse’s head. The Mafia, now there’s an organisation where the double-cross is just part and parcel of doing business.
Considering where we are, some might say that’s also apt…
Vaxx Life
Vaxx life
(Vaxx life)
That’s what all the politicians say
Get the first jab in April, shot two in May
They said we’d have to be immune
If we wanted to see Disney World in June
They said Vaxx life
(Vaxx life)
Governments and Media scream
‘You Anti-vaxxers get your kicks
Stopping our Build Back Better dream
But they don’t let it, let it get them down
Cause they believe they can still win us around
They tried persuasion, peer pressure, payola, proscription
And pure gaslighting
We’ve been set up, locked down over and over
Just to get one thing
Each lie they come up with
Told to our face
‘It’s safe & effective’
They’re a fucking disgrace
Vaxx life
(Vaxx life)
They tell us, ‘you must comply’ yet
The thought of acquiescing, baby
Well, my heart just ain’t gonna buy that
Cause if I wobble and take one single try
What’s the betting that I’d be that one to die
Or get blood clots, Bells palsy, brain tumour, breast cancer
or blood poisoning
On top of getting Covid over and over
The ‘Long Covid’ thing
Each time the Media tries lying
Right to our face
‘It’s safe and effective’
They’re a fucking disgrace
Vaxx life
(Vaxx life)
There’s anger, I can’t deny it
The thought of cutting heads off, I must still decry it
But if they ever give it one more try
People will rise up
And this time they’ll die
No Lie
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I’ll also be posting up my story from Underdog Anthology XX later this week. It’s called Wholly Ghost and it’s the eighth installment of my Ronageddon series. If you are unfamiliar with previous seven stories, there is a link to them under ‘Pages’ on the left-hand sidebar.
*Sumfin like that, Clicky… /stubs butt… ;)*
Library of Libraries 
Thank you for those wonderful Mel Brooks stroked of genius.
Great shame we never got The History Of The World, Part II.
It will never happen now. Too many offendees.
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I so wanted a Part II 😀
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I never even thought about getting a vaccine. And a good job too.
Then I discovered that people with Rhesus Negative Blood don’t get COVID. I bet The Government knew that. A lot of people do.
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I didn’t know that but I’m sure Governments did know.
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