free association
comprised of subtle insinuation
rushes onward to cognation
random ideas’ gestation
expressed in dazzling creation
a pyramiding sensation
of continuous augmentation
~ endless fascination
gw monorhyme June 19, 2022
Do not the ones who preach diversity create the same conundrum as the ones who preach segregation?
To whom must I defer to define what or how society should look like or be organized as?
What are the standards by which diversity is to be judged and who are the arbiters of the standards?
Is my diversity allowed to differ from yours?
How do diversity mandates differ fundamentally at the core than segregation mandates?
All laws or constructs that force the individual citizen or corporate citizen to comply with edicts restricting choice of human association are an anathema to freedom!
Freedom being the ideal to strive for, diversity being a natural biproduct of freedom.
All men secretly yearn to be free, but many are willing to abdicate the freedoms of their fellow man in order to lord power over them.
Power to control others the true aim of both the segregationist and the diversity devotees.
Both being willing to use government power to control their fellow citizens right to free association.
It is by definition a Godly Patriot who will stand up and fight for their fellow man’s freedom!
Corsican sand
on the Rio Grande
Simon Bolivar weeps
the night asleep
Renegade cycles
hogs gone mild
Gehinnom's Mayor
Timothy Leary's child
Zebras abound
in Peppermint Land
Alan Ginsberg howls
from primal jowls
Leopold Bloom
did not predict ZOOM
Cosmic collisions silent
without Daniel Boone
Country music
Mix in Ragtime
from Alexander's Band
to Motown Rhyme
Andy Warhol's mind
spilled out in soup cans
Campbell's pork and beans
Welsh Rarebit also-ran
When free association
Met psychic gestalt
The resultant metastasis
Petered out beneath salt
Stream of Consciousness is out
New Age Meaninglessness is sin
Wherever Narcissism reigns
Foot Worship rushes in
The best poems at night
often come unbidden
J. Cricket fervently wished
This one hadn't been written
Shed no tears if Jim, Jack or Jill
Should shamble away to link up with Bill.
Free choice for folks to make
Don’t you claim it’s fake.
Lose no sleep if erstwhile comrades
Should hobnob with Will’s parades.
Free flavor for folks to taste
If their fancy claims for them it’s best.
Take it not too hard if Twiggy walks away
If in her opinion that’s the new way to play.
Free association lights up lives
No single reason to sharpen knives.
Worry not if a prodigal partner repents
Relents to free himself from serpents.
Free decision for folks to take
As they opt your cake to bake.
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