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Civil Union

By the way, Have you felt the stick today? Missed a support payment or alimony? How’s it feel to live in the land of the free? Surely, this is NOT civility. By the way, can you afford the heat? Does your menu include gene-altered meat? In a civil land, surely all would be fed. In a civil land, all would have roofs and beds. How’s it feel to have no obvious choice run by a government who won’t hear your voice? By the way, have you paid for the water you drink, because you don’t trust, the kitchen sink’s? Certainly civility should and would decree a clean, functioning place to simply pee? Would a civil nation arrest and detain so many strangers to receive a water boards’ pain? Does civil society require your passport chipped? Does a nation of laws allow phone calls clipped? Each country claims to be this mythical land where the masses are cared for, given a hand. In this Never Neverland no one would stay sick. We'd all live good life’s without carrying the stick. In this Never Neverland we'd live proudly free represented by goodness in grand civility.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 4/16/2010 9:54:00 AM
hey wise one. missed you too! I like the intention you give here which is for everyone to stop believing society speaks for them. I don't buy into a civil utopia either. If I didn't have a job I would starve to death sooner or later. It's that simple. but then no one wants a dystopia either. So in the end you get a split society that wants to both keep the rich rich and also not watch the masses starve. Starving poor people makes rich people feel guilty. :) I'll be back from time to time.
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Date: 4/6/2010 11:07:00 PM
Wish you all the best if it is contest entry. I enjoyed reading couplets with a fine rhyming
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Date: 4/6/2010 8:10:00 PM
Civility indeed, Deb!...I assume this is an entry to the contest? Great argument! (though you MUST know by now I must respectifully disagree with the politics?) But who cares?...Lets fight and argue and then finally sort it all out! - Tim
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Date: 4/6/2010 2:11:00 PM
Fantastic, Deborah...you've hit it square on its head...civility is a word that so many people don't know the meaning of.. Goes to my favs., today...Peace, audrey
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Date: 4/6/2010 1:03:00 PM
ps Love the title you gave this too.
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Date: 4/6/2010 1:01:00 PM
Good one, DEb. WE do not seem so civilized in the end, do we. It's really a shame what is happening to some of the truly poor. Thanks so much for voting on five words. LUv ya, andrea
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Date: 4/6/2010 9:39:00 AM
a lot to think about
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Date: 4/6/2010 8:22:00 AM
Enjoyed like always. P.D.
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