When Post-modernists say race or gender
Is a social construct,
They’re not really saying anything
Other than we don’t like your definitions.
Since race and gender are words
Based on conceptual classifications
They are no different than any other words.
In this way everything is a social construct
Depending on the world view of the society.
The difference in animate and inanimate?
Just a social construct.
The difference in plant and animal?
Just a social construct.
The difference in positive and negative,
Black and white, good and evil, up and down
Me and you? Just a social construct.
We live in a world of such constructs,
They allow us to function
And manipulate this world.
And yes, that includes manipulating others
If you are so inclined.
Who doesn’t live in such a distinct
And discriminating world?
The new born infant at the portal of life,
And the mentally dementiaed at the edge of death.
The rest of us, are thank goodness,
Somewhere in between.
(9/19/26)
Natural
Normally we should have
Non discriminating tastes but
Neuropsychiatrists have proven that our
Nasopharynx has evolved tastebuds and our
Noses odor receptors which can provide a
Natural defense against
Nano toxins and allow for
Nonbelligerent molecules to enter our bodies. One would think this would be
Newsworthy and a scientific article would be written for the magazine
Nature because it is
Nondenominational in its scientific approach and is
Neutral in its reporting. But this
Newfangled idea will have
No appeal to the
Nonreader and those who
Need to read this article will
Not get the chance to read this important information as it will considered
Nonessential.
“If the Self is the negation of imagined worlds, if It is the negation of imagined gods, if there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive Absolute, how can there be discriminating consciousness of good and evil?”
Evil egos are from love misaligned,
yet a day comes when they self-realise,
that all’s one so being loving and kind,
is how God wishes to look through our eyes,
to which end wayward ego must capsize.
As each soul journeys on its chartered course,
love transforms their hearts without use of force.
(“Outside Looking In Merit Badge”, 2011, original oil)
The greatest human quality is discernment,
The discriminating and the separating
Of the grain from the chaff;
The glass is not the wine
The instrument is not the music
The body/mind is not the spirit
The dream is not dreamer
Yet day by day we blur the lines
Grasping and holding
That which is merely useful or pleasurable
But truly fleeting and impermanent
Holding on to what is tangible
While the intangible,
The sublime and divine
Within the merely mundane
Is all that really remains.
(2/3/26)
The vestiges of slavery methodically remain.
Blacks are being killed in broad daylight daily.
Blacks are discriminating against systematically.
Systemic racism is a cancer with a behemothic pain.
The symbols of slavery refuse to evanesce like
A shameful cloud lazily hovering over our head.
There is too much hypocrisy around the sad bed,
And too many racist tail-waggers are ready to attack.
Too many unwell uncle toms are not emancipated.
This is still a highly peculiar world. People don't mean
What they mean and many impostors can't be trusted.
The struggle must continue. Fights are never clean.
Backstabbing is prevalent. The injustice is unbearable.
Life is precious and priceless and yet hope is inevitable.
Copyright © June 2020, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
We set upon a journey
That would make us great
We decided to love our neighbors
Instead of embracing hate
We opened our hearts to the poor
A roof over every head
We measured our speech
Considering what we said
Discriminating unacceptable
Not afraid of history
Truth not a fabrication
Helping others our ministry
We took back handouts
The rich had enough
Money for education
medicine and other stuff
We protested for others
Sacrificing what we could
It was not just about us
We considered the greater good
Right mixed with left
Divisions all blurred
America became Great!
“We the People” had the final word.
The above is my hope for America.
Porky Pig once stopped by my butcher shoppe
Pig was not looking for any old slop
He searched high and low
Meat tasted like crow
'Please, Elmer, one pound of strings from your mop’
For a consecutive 6 weeks,
You helped a project of "putting the lipsticks on the pig".
Has the fence not damaged by the strangers,
We would not have worked together.
You helped keeping me safe from outsiders,
Prevent people invading into my living quarters,
But, you had stolen the key to my heart's locker,
Made me seeing the fence as a reminder.
Let it bleed inside my mind,
It hurt all days and nights,
Despite I have tried,
The pain and heartache have not ended.
Remember those dots I used,
They were exactly how I felt at the time,
But did not know you well enough to share my inner feelings,
Should never have those feelings in the first place.
It was never your false,
You did not encourage nor give me any wrong messages.
It was me who was so vulnerable,
Growed an affection and invested emotion feelings on you.
I never blamed you terminated our friendship,
If there was any of it.
However. I loathed you for disrespecting me and discriminating me being part of dirty system.
I didn't compare
Neither did I compete
I'm always in my lane
Yet they're always against me
Steadily plotting my ruin
Just to humiliate and rule over me.
Steadily, they attack
My self confidence
Trying to tame or break me
Steadily them be bullying
Giving me all sort of names
Trying to shame me
They ain't my maker
So I'm unshakeable and unbreakable.
My mistakes
Their empowerment
They all act like they're perfect
Steadily discriminating me
Causing calamity in our country
Ruining our unity
Forgetting United we stand
They mislive and misaligned
Just for instant gratification and selfish goals.
Discriminating palates
garnish salads with shallots
But when eating croquettes
avoid mallets
I know,
it is 2024
When a best artist paint
mix different colours
While drawing something on the board.
He will end up happily
As the outcome will be super.
I can say loud,
" Best
Artist
Paint
always appreciates his final product."
What can astonish me the most,
To see a man of certain
colour skin
Sleeping with a woman
of other colour skin
At the end of their enjoyment
Comes a mixture colour child
Then a man end up discriminating
His own child
While claiming publicly...
He " she" is not of his colour skin.
Can you call this man
" Best
Artist
Paint "
Does he really understand
the beauty of mixture
colours?
Look at this World
visit this World and
see different colour skins
Of many folks.
Don't ask who painted them well
Remember they are
many painters
Out there.
SIGNIFICANCE
rhythmic
repetition
in
flowing lines
expressive
intuition
to the fore
excursions
into the spontaneous
magnificently
emphatic
emotionally
exaggerated
&
yet
naturalistic
portraying
continuance
profound
&discriminating
common
experience
in a
synthesis
intangible
separate
affinity
of
inspiration
formal
but natural
singularly
free
yet organic
Purr jump,land-rattle purr
influction question tail sunny zest of purre
charmier' tailcurlers wanting something more (a finger, a box, of growl-worthy-meat?)
discriminating shoppurred gamers purrimal friskers-offenders purrfection at the door, naughty entertainer offender, repeat
Define or describe a Circle
Okay here goes
I will try and give it my best shot
A Circle per day
Is when people say for example who have
Been and experienced first hand
Oppression any form of discrimination or abuse
Modern generations more liberated and emboldened
Somehow appropriate for and to serve themselves
And end up becoming the oprresors and abusers
Discriminating , indiscriminately spiteful hate against
Anyone that has a different opinion or viewpoint
Because you aren't welcome or to be tolerated
Sound familiar the very definition of
Complete gone full
Circle
Discrimination of human being over the years
It was an un answered question for me for all these years
I have been searching ,asking ,finding the answer
For all these years
I have found an answer to myself
Happiness is the prime key,aspect for a human being to discriminate the other..
Yes ,happiness is the key factor for discrimination
Human finds happiness in degrading others in terms of character ,in terms of culture.
Caste discrimination in india
Color discrimination in America
Country might be different but the character of human will be the same ,The gene behaviour is the same ,human being happiness lies in discriminating the others..human gene never likes equality .
The adenine thymine guanine cytosine likes no equality discrimination lies in the genes..
Happiness is the key for all human being who have been discriminating others over the years.
Human gene likes no equality..
human likes discrimination in reality
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