Banning broken binders but binge-buying billions of bananas...
Is a terrible idea
To be truly, fully present
Of consciousness and
answering why we are here,
These studies are a promising field of research
Yet by powerful backlash
research has halted
For severe depression and PTSD
Universities use micro-doses of psylocibin
Derived from mushrooms
It lowers stress and doesn’t
cause hallucinations
Follow up studies show dramatic improvement
of conditions not previously responsive
to conventional medications and therapies
This chemical is still widely banned
Except for a few controlled studies
Underway at accredited, renowned medical
and psychiatric departments
at major universities
When popular conventional
therapies prove ineffective
the 60’s and 70’s proved a fertile ground
for those seeking help
New age treatment called Primal Therapy,
When religious cults such as love Guru’s
Hare`Krishna mantras, Buddhist chants
of Nam-Myoho-renge-kio or being shakabukued
or Hollywood fix its— for anxiety’s
mental illness failed,
Came the psychotherapists
and the latest Primal Scream Therapy
new and experimental, so-called Hollywood therapists
took it to levels unimaginable and a bit too far
and should have never been licensed!
Conservatives’ banning’s apropos of nothing
At twelve when he delt with this
shouldn't have to jump through hoops
should’ve been able to explore when a teen
But because of many conservative groups
The Ire excessive was the coming of age
Juvenile mistakes made in adult years
Denied the ability to pick up social skills
Sexual assault and sexual awaking
considered pornographic
Q**r’s often live a second adolescents
This is a guide for the coming of age allies
States have taken off the shelves
Intersectional as his life
Chapters are a collection, four acts
referred to as “parts” in this guide
self-contained essay’s
The memoir progresses through Johnson’s life
Two letters appear alongside
the chapters for mother and brother
Conditioned to think what’s the truth
Indoctrinated in us
Stop crying, racialized
School bullies
The flee market incident
Institutionalized violence
Family structure marginalized
Community –college fraternity
And black joy
Tells the truth
A black and q***r boy’s experience
Gender identity
Toxic masculinity
Brotherhood
If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours— Radclyffe Hall
Explore themes of love and identity
Of Stephen Gordon’s innate sense of masculinity
Since a child, her desire, ‘women’
The idea that if love is considered a sin
The unfolding of a female sexual invert
The act of loving must be a tender selfless act, revert?
Love itself is not inherently sinful or
complexities of love, we shan’t ignore
But rather the circumstances surrounding it
Misfits from Malvern to London and then to Paris!
Ira furor brevis, the frailty, taboo and strife
Fellow q***r characters, all walks of life
From the *sapphic salon hostess Valérie Seymour
To the 'miserable army' and more
of outcasts that frequents the 'merciless
Drug-dealing, death-dealing' bars of Montmartre
Written in another time, still support and solidarity to
generations of LGBTQ genre
*Sapphic is an umbrella term for same-gender loving women or woman-aligned people, including lesbians and bisexual+ women. It is used to describe topics, activities, and ideas related to same-sex attraction among women. The term can also refer to the Greek lyric poet Sappho.
Best seller
“Gone Girl” a novel by Gillian Flynn
Riddles, my wife loved games of amusement
I never found out the clue of why
she had gone missing, accuse me?
I was spent on our anniversary
Under mysterious circumstances
Nothing is what it seems
Nick and Amy’s duality
Identity, masculinity
For once I didn’t feel like I was struggling
Iconic cool girl persona
The girl men like Nick want
Never get angry, party girl, let men do what they do
Women’s issues, an essay Amy would write
Molding herself into that girl reinventing herself
Image and alter-ego are everything!
Appearance verses reality
Genuine pleasure to read
Oh, she has the last word
A classic Who done it? distinct subgenre
Surprising and masterfully done
Amy is smart, self-aware with a vindictive psyche
Warning authors of their marriage
Nick’s side or Amy’s?
Two very different humans
They both prove to be unreliable
Awry, a thriller of unease
Her childhood stories bring tears to the eye
They’re of her overcoming difficulties
In an abusive family life
The subjects in racist societies
Molestation and racism are two reasons why
Traumatization had caused her to be MUTE
They ban books for the harsh reality they deny
Through reading literature, she becomes astute
And expresses her pain and sorrows
Poetry was her outlet and therapy
For writing and better tomorrows
Banned books begins again,
Always has a place,
To embarrass us as a race!
For intelligence and analytical thinking,
Banned books sure are stinking!
Kids can read anything they may,
On phones they play all day.
Failure to hold an old bound book,
Results in failure to interest a look,
At possibilities and inventions,
That might bring forth a light from every nook!
Fiction can help us believe,
What is possible to achieve!
Looking at art created with passion,
Can only open our eyes as if with a lantern!
While any music or thought that is expressed out loud,
Should express,
A discourse to be proud!
Banning books of any sort,
Could lead to people who only follow,
So, continue on and read aloud!
"the beat banned band"
no piccolo
or sopranino
nor no no not
sopranissimo
the hep and hip
cats where it's at
play subterranean
subcontrabass
Doctor
Sax
seen at and as
part of the scene
saying we'd
be smoking
and are the
ContraBand
Read
banned books
enlighten
a feeble mind
enthrall lucid souls
try thinking for yourself
defy the authoritah
the empire may well crumble
the planet might veer out of orbit
but wisdom attained is always worth it
Dr. Seuss has been banned? Your kidding said the cat.
This does not compute.
I just bought this hat!
Who decided to do it? Asked the chit of a kit.
I do not like this, do not like it a bit!
My grandpa was a drinking man
he never lost a dealer’s hand
we hired a caregiver
to tend his bad liver
from bottle and table he’s banned
He tried to sneak drink and a game
and was feeling the stare of fame
drew a royal flush
his liver turned to mush
his game will never be the same
Oh, say, tis not so!
The brilliant Bard has to go?
Mistaken educators, mindlessly think,
His golden pen was filled with racist ink?
Cancel culture, at its utmost worst,
For his masterful, classical poetry, I so thirst!
2/22/2021
~1~
Banned man
So, it finally happened, of course, Trump gets the blame
but I think this, not the whole story.
For years the workers have seen their wage packet shrinking
and their rights being ignored, no health insurance
nor trade union to look after their interest
As the common man gets poorer, the wealthy get richer
they live with the fear of needing surgery or losing the job.
The two ills go together if a sick person stay away from work
too long he gets fired anyway.
The people revolted Trump fanned the flame that already
was lit.
And it gets worse the big tech firms have banned the president
of the united states and that is an outrage that belongs
to a dictatorship, it has a sinister implication that doesn’t bode well
for us civilian when only what suits the big tech get a hearing
this includes anyone of us at any time.
banned
So, it happened again
I called a prancing woman dancing
Happy that Joe Biden won the election,
“a silly .”
I`m glad Trump is going, but I fear.
The new president has unfinished “democracy.”
Like Syria, Iran to bomb into submission.
His for of “American Democracy” leads him.
On the warpath.
We are so happy that Trump lost although
Seventy million voted for him.
There are too many of them, and they are not idiots,
Well, not all of them.
It is about collar workers who have no union to protect
From arbitrary dismissal, it is about sick pay and
And a proper pension, Joe Biden will do nothing.
He is a man for the big pharma and other corporation.
The USA have a racism problem that will be unsolved.
Until the mighty country can learn it has to change,
And Joe Biden is not the man to fix this problem.
Hence my irritation to jubilant s who have not
read a newspaper for years.
Dreamt last night I was king of a land
A paradise filled with gorgeous women and men
Sunshine galore
Couldn't ask for more
Decreed in an edict, all clothing was banned
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