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Premium Member Exceptionalism
Each species has its tools
to do what it can to ensure
its own survival.
We, try our best to 
separate,
and say we are not
the same.
We pick a trait to denote
our exclusivity.
Other species prove
their relativity.

Once it was tools
and to our chagrin
we found they all 
were using them
and so...

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Categories: exceptionalism, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exceptionalism
"Expect great things; do great things" is a quote I once heard.

X, the 24th letter of the alphabet, is often used to designate a person.

Commitment, dedication, endurance are required to achieve the exception.

Excellence, erect with heads up, seeks neither excuses nor sub-par outcomes.

Preparation has no...

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Categories: exceptionalism, america, christian, god, integrity,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Mothertree Integrity
How might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?

A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and more disabled
and WhiteMale monotheistic

How might even Republican Red MotherTrees
avoid secularized Self-serving
by Capitalizing Other-undeserving

Instead of
separating and unequalizing
retributive justice disvalues
pimped by StraightWhiteMonoTheisticMale privilege
to criminally...

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Categories: exceptionalism, appreciation, earth, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

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